Ok i know this has probably been asked before, before i cant find an aswerI have just done a fresh install of windows XP Pro x32I removed all other pyshical hard drives beforehand, the remaining hard drive is partitioned into 2When installing from the cd, i deleted the existing c drive, recreated the c drive, and formated it. great.Then procedded to install on the c drive, everthing is cool. got all the updates etc. system working fine.So i reattachted my other drives, put the pc back together and power up, as usuall all the drive letters have moved around, so i start to put that right.But windows has decided to put the system files on the second partition of the drive and the boot files on the first partition, i know windows will put the system files when it sees an active drive, but surely c drive should be active, after the format? and put them there.The second partition has never had a os on it. Also now after i have reattached the other hard drives, the second partition is now moved to drive f:, not d or e which it would have been before, dvd drive would have taken d or e.So windows can find the system files wherever they are. so how do i change it?? i know you will probably say reinstall, but how can i stop it from putting the system files on the second partition? other than copying all the data to another drive and reformatting the whole drive?Thanks for any help

Hi Adria61, Follow the steps listed in the article below and check it it helps you. Warning Do not use the procedure that is described in this article to change a drive on a computer where the drive letter has not changed. If you do so, you may not be able to start your operating system. Follow the procedure that is described in this article only to recover from a drive letter change, not to change an existing computer drive to something else. Back up your registry keys before you make this change. How to back up and restore the registry in WindowsHow to restore the system/boot drive letter in WindowsRegards,Divya R – Microsoft Support.Visit our Microsoft Answers Feedback Forum and let us know what you think.