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Old 17-Apr-2007, 05:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I have a problem that I want to resolve. A week ago a reformatted and reinstalled my computer. It used to have raid with two drives. One of the drives broke so i decided to run it as a one drive system. I broke the array, formatted the drive and installed a fresh copy of XP. It was not until later on that i realised i do not have a C drive and the system partition is G. Everything is working fine and programs install to G ok. It is just now and then when I run snapshots, msi packages or application shortcuts pointing to c that I have issues. For example, none of the ms office application shortcuts work for me as they are pointing to C drive. I can easyily change it to g. I just wonder if there will be more issues along the way.

Is there a pragmatic way of changing back to C or will I have to wipe the drive and start again. I was wondering if Partition Magic could rename it and follow on through the registry?
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The thing is 'most' of the OS volume settings will point to the environment variable %SystemDrive%
Which, when changed would equal C:

The problem comes in when programs that were installed were done so by hardcoding their path into the registry.
When I've gotten this to work in the past, all I had to do was a simple search through the registry and replace the old drive letter for the new on apps that didn't work. I say simple, but the results are not. It could take a while to accomplish this and during that time, the hair is standing up on the back of your neck because you have this feeling it may not turn out for you... :^) Mine did, fortunately, but it was a headache, looking back...
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