How to change the startup drive mapping for Win XP?

Ok, I am reformatting a hard drive on a Gateway MX 6448 Notebook running the 32-bit version of XP. There were 2 partitions, a primary partition (C:), and a recovery partition (D:). When I deleted the primary partition to create a new partition to reinstall windows, the recovery partition then became drive C:, and the primary partition became drive D:. I tried to simply rename the drives using regedit, but when I rename the local disk, windows cant load at startup because the drive letter has now changed. How can I edit the drive mappings on startup so I can change to the correct drive letters for the local disk and the recovery partition?How to change the startup drive mapping for Win XP?
If you can get windows to load, then use Easeus Partition Manager:

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.h



...it has a function to delete a partion. Once the C: partition is deleted, you can expand the D: partition to encompass the free space on the drive. Once that is done, learn to live with the system drive always being D: drive. Its not that big of a deal these days, as most apps do not use hard coded absolute paths on install.



You might find some links floating around the web to a Microsoft knowledgebase article on how to change system drive letters. Do not attempt to do this. Read the description in the article, the instructions kind of sound like it does what you want, but in reality, its simply to fix a situation where the system drive letter got changed by accident and you want to restore it.



If you simply cannot deal with the drive being the letter D:, the back up everything and reload Windows from scratch, making sure you remove all partitions first, then let Windows create a new partition and format it. This will ensure you get a primary active partition from which the system will boot, and it will be called the C: drive by default. Make SURE you disconnect any USB card readers before you start the Windows install, though, or your drive letters will be out of whack again, and you will have to start all over.



If you cannot get windows to load at all, you can attempt to do a %26quot;recovery install%26quot; of Windows Xp, it should restore your drive mappings so you can log back onto windows.How to change the startup drive mapping for Win XP?
mycomputer right click manage disk managment,change drive letter

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