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How To Change System Drive Letter

This document provides instructions for changing the system or boot drive letter in Windows. It notes that changing drive letters is generally not recommended unless they were changed without user intervention. The steps involve making a system backup, renaming registry keys for the current and new drive letters, and restarting the computer. Any drive letter changes should be switched back to the original installation configuration.

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How To Change System Drive Letter

This document provides instructions for changing the system or boot drive letter in Windows. It notes that changing drive letters is generally not recommended unless they were changed without user intervention. The steps involve making a system backup, renaming registry keys for the current and new drive letters, and restarting the computer. Any drive letter changes should be switched back to the original installation configuration.

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SUMMARY > This article describes how to change the > system or boot drive letter in > Windows.

For the most part, this is not > recommended, especially if the > drive letter is the same as when Windows > was installed. The only time > that you may want to do this is when the > drive letters get changed without > any user intervention. This may happen > when you break a mirror volume > or there is a drive configuration > change. This should be a rare occurrence > and you should change the drive letters > back to match the initial > installation. NOTE: Please be aware of > the following issue related to drive > letters: > 249321 > > Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition > Drive Letter Has Changed > > > WARNING: If you use Registry Editor > incorrectly, you may cause > serious problems that may require you to > reinstall your operating system. > Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can > solve problems that result from > using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use > Registry Editor at your own risk. > > To change or swap drive letters on > volumes that cannot otherwise be > changed using the Disk Management > snap-in, use the following steps. > > NOTE: In these steps, drive D refers to > the (wrong) drive letter assigned > to a volume, and drive C refers to the > (new) drive letter you want to > change to, or to assign to the volume. > > This procedure swaps drive letters for > drives C and D. If you do not need > to swap drive letters, simply name the

> \DosDevice\letter: value to any new > drive letter not in use. > > back to the top > > Changing the System/Boot Drive Letter > Make a full system backup of the > computer and system state. > Log on as an Administrator. > Start Regedt32.exe. > Go to the following registry key: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices > Click MountedDevices. > On the Security menu, click Permissions. > Check to make sure Administrators have > full control. Change this back > when you are finished with these steps. > Quit Regedt32.exe, and then start > Regedit.exe. > Go to the following registry key: > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices > Find the drive letter you want to change > to (new). Look for > "\DosDevices\C:". > Right-click \DosDevices\C:, and then > click Rename. > > NOTE: You must use Regedit instead of > Regedt32 to rename this registry > key. > Rename it to an unused drive letter > "\DosDevices\Z:". (This will free up > drive letter C: to be used later.) > Find the drive letter you want changed. > Look for "\DosDevices\D:". > Right-click \DosDevices\D:, and then > click Rename. > Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive > letter "\DosDevices\C:". > Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, > click Rename, and then name it back > to "\DosDevices\D:". > Quit Regedit, and then start Regedt32. > Change the permissions back to the > previous setting for Administrators > (this should probably be Read Only). > Restart the computer.

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