Help me rename my hard disk drive please.

[moe11888]

For some reason some software doesn't install well if the hard disk drive is not labled C: and I want to change my hard disk drive name from I: to C: and I dont know how to do it. Can someone please help me?

[Ledhed]

How did it wind up being "I"? Is it a second hard drive?

[minos1067]

Go to "help and support" through windows start menu and type in drive letter and you should get something like this (its pretty easy):

To assign, change, or remove a drive letter
Using the Windows interface

Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Where?

Computer Management (Local)
Storage
Disk Management

Right-click a partition, logical drive, or volume, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Do one of the following:
To assign a drive letter, click Add, click the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK.
To modify a drive letter, click it, click Change, click the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK.
To remove a drive letter, click it, and then click Remove.
Important

Be careful when making drive-letter assignments because many MS-DOS and Windows programs make references to a specific drive letter. For example, the path environment variable shows specific drive letters in conjunction with program names.
Notes

To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this procedure.
A computer can use up to 26 drive letters. Drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives, but you can assign these letters to removable drives if the computer does not have a floppy disk drive. Hard disk drives in the computer receive letters C through Z, while mapped network drives are assigned drive letters in reverse order (Z through B).
You cannot change the drive letter of the system volume or boot volume.
An error message may appear when you attempt to assign a letter to a volume, CD-ROM drive, or other removable media device, possibly because it is in use by a program in the system. If this happens, close the program accessing the volume or drive, and then click the Change Drive Letter and Paths command again.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP allow the static assignment of drive letters on volumes, partitions, and CD-ROM drives. This means that you permanently assign a drive letter to a specific partition, volume, or CD-ROM drive. When you add a new hard disk to an existing computer system, it will not affect statically assigned drive letters.
You can also mount a local drive at an empty folder on an NTFS volume using a drive path instead of a drive letter. For more information, click Related Topics.

[minos1067]

start - control panel - administrative tools - computer management - disk management

[minos1067]

this is on win xp, hope it works for you. it should.

[sblymnlcrymnl]

That may work, but in my experience you can't change a system or boot drive letter through windows.

[moe11888]

How did it wind up being "I"? Is it a second hard drive?

My hard drive crashed once, and I had a service plan at bb. They replaced the hard drive for free, but for some reason they named the hard disk drive I:.

I am able to change all the drives except the hard disk. It says Windows cannon modify the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume.

[sblymnlcrymnl]

How did it wind up being "I"? Is it a second hard drive?

My hard drive crashed once, and I had a service plan at bb. They replaced the hard drive for free, but for some reason they named the hard disk drive I:.

I am able to change all the drives except the hard disk. It says Windows cannon modify the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume.

So I guess I was right. I haven't been able to find a way around this yet, all I can say is good luck.

[ZeroSupporT]

Go here to learn how to: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223188

Best of luck

[LinkinPrime]

Take it back to BB and have them do the work, since you already paid for it...Those bitch ass mofos!

[moe11888]

Go here to learn how to: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223188

Best of luck

I think that is going to clear my HD.

[minos1067]

perhaps partition magic. i just had to increase the size of my bootdrive from 5g to 10g cuz winxp & norton are hogging almost 4gs and its hard to defrag around that, plus temp files pile up pretty quick. did it and it worked. maybe you can try it.

[moe11888]

perhaps partition magic. i just had to increase the size of my bootdrive from 5g to 10g cuz winxp & norton are hogging almost 4gs and its hard to defrag around that, plus temp files pile up pretty quick. did it and it worked. maybe you can try it.

Is partition magic a software? I dont think I understand.

[ZeroSupporT]

There's always a possibility that it will fuck up your hard drive, but if your OS was originally installed on the C: and they changed it this is how you can change it back. Of course changing it could seriously fuck up your PC but I don't think there is any sugar coated way around what you are doing. You can always partition or split your existing hard drive up but if a program is looking for certain files and only Windows is on the C: partition then you could have problems there. All at your own risk though.