Windows hd showing as "D" not "C"

jozi

Reinstalled windows the other day and now my windows harddisk is the "D" drive.
How do i get it back to being "C" drive?
I tried changing the drive letter in administrative tools but it wasnt possible.

Jozi

Subc

get partition magic 8.0

google it and find there free trial, all you do is like right click it properties and change the letter or something simular to that, reall easy

Cabaal

Out of curiosity do you now have a boot menu when you start you PC
It allows you to select between two copies of 2000 or XP?

Subc

normally it should put C automatically
there must be something else that occupies this drive letter and you don't see it when you boot up, there another hdd not plugged or wut not

jozi

I have 2 hd's, 1 for data 1 for windows.
Reinstalled windows as normal, wipe the windows hd and then install on it.
Both drives where connected at the time and when i got into windows the drives where not how i wanted them
There isnt a menu for 2 os's when i boot.
I'm guessing the boot sector is on the data drive and not the windows one.
I was going to format that drive but im not sure should i just incase i wipe the boot sector

Webmonkey

Pull out the Data Drive for safty and reformat. Plug back in afterwards making sure it jumpered to Slave and then that drive should appear as D and have your system on C. I don't think its possible to change the drive letter of the OS after it's installed as everythings pointing to \...

jozi

Not a chance of formating and then doing a new install (if thats what you mean) done that 1 tomany times now.
No jumpers either as its 2 sata drives.

Mac daddy

The drive is probally being hidden for a reason - your best bet is to install partition magic to see what it sees.