Server 2K3 Drive Letter

Hi Everyone,

Hope you can help me this one, would it be possible to have a server that has it root drive is not letter "C"

ex: s:\

TY
Aries

I think natively Windows setup wouldn't let you format like that.. but you could use Partition Magic or something like that to manage it I suppose..


eh.. did someone say /dev/hda1

Never tried this to be perfectly honest with you, however you could try firing up 'diskmgmt.msc' from the run dialog, right click on a drive and selecting Change drive letter. As I say, never done it on boot devices.

hi

sadly, the disk management snap in can not change the drive letter of the root drive, and sahir is right in saying that Windows Setup does not allow it, even if you partitioned a drive to have say an S drive, during the course of the Windows setup it would revert it back to a logical drive consecutive to the previous one.

Hahahahahaha this is damn funny,
I asked a guy here to do some R&D on the topic, he changed the drive letter in the registry.. and now we're desperately trying to get Windows to find S: and boot


Don't try this at home kids.

Why change the drive letter?

If its because of an application, you could always create a batch file to create a virtual drive letter

cd \
subst S: d:\Xmas-Elf

<<Where \Xmas-Elf is converted to S:>>

Whether this works on the root, i'm not brave enough to try but partition magic 9 should do the trick, as Sahirh suggests.