Changing Boot Drive name

[GT98]

Anyway I can go about changing the drive letter name of my boot drive? I installed a new WD 120GB drive to replace a failing WD 30GB Drive and I installed WinXP onto the 120GB drive so I could recover the data off the smaller drive. Well the 120 GB drive is now known as F: and not as C: since I took the old drive out and if I try to change the name of it windows comes back and tells me that it can't modify drive names of system volumes or Boot drives. I wouldnt normally care but this is on a friends system and It might drive him up a wall

[Rob(QG)]

There is some info here (same for XP as 2000):

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q223188

After that you would then have to search the registry for any other occurences that need to be changed for specific programs.

I've no idea how successful it is likely to be - I feel your pain though as I have ended up in similar situations quite often.

I seem to remember that DriveImage can do it as well, and possibly more reliably.

[Wombat]

Yeah, I did it, a month or two ago. I posted the results here in GH. It involves some registry editing; there was an article from anandtech that laid out the basics.

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40432&highlight=drive+AND+letter