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Geek Culture / How Can I Change My Default Boot Hard Drive?

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Game King
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Location: Naples, FL
Posted: 3rd Jul 2008 23:21
Hi, I've been having this problem for a while now and have no clue how to fix it. My current default hard drive is my local disc(H and it's full! It's total size is 8 gb, and it's not suppose to be my default hard drive. I have a hard drive of 224 gb and only 2 gb is being used in there. How can I change it so that my C: drive is my default? thanks! btw I have a XP.
Osiris
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Posted: 4th Jul 2008 00:17
You would have to change that to your master drive via the little switch inside the computer, then I think you have to reinstall XP. Why don't you just start putting things onto that other drive instead? Like uninstall some programs and reinstall them onto the other drive? Or even better just drop some bigger folder that you just have stuff in like music and the sort that is on the wrong drive and put in on the new one?

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Darth Vader
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Posted: 4th Jul 2008 12:07
theres a way to do it through Command prompt, but I use Vista so it's different I think!


IanM
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Posted: 4th Jul 2008 15:53
@Game King,
You don't need to change your boot drive, you just need to change your habits and change the system a little.

Create a Program Files folder on your C drive, uninstall a couple of your applications, then reinstall them but specify the C:\Program Files folder. Do this for all future installs you run.

The next thing you can do is create a folder on the C drive, move all the files you don't need right now into the folder, then create a shortcut from your desktop to the folder so that you can get to them.

An alternative to that last step is to relocate your user folder(s) to your C drive, either individually, or all at once - I'd suggest the all-at-once method, although it is a little time consuming, it's cleaner. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/en-us - it's down the page a little.

Sergey K
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Posted: 4th Jul 2008 21:52
at windows starts, it searches for the first drive (e.g C:\)
and searches for files CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
once they are not exists, it automaticly trying to read "C:\Windows" path. but if they are exists, in one of those files should be writed the path of the windows you want to start..
not sure how to use it though. google it.

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