Changing system partition's drive letter

[bpbpbp]

Hi, a hard drive of mine crapped out on me. I lost everything on that drive. It was making funcky sounds so i just completely gave up on it.

Anyway, i went out and bought a new one as soon as i can, installed winxp pro on it with no problems. However, i'm not happy with the system partition's drive letter (something other than C). I've googled first. It said it's dangerous to change the system-partition's drive letter.

I didn't install any apps in particular, just mainly the drivers that i need. So i guess its not too late to format & reinstall winxp just so i can change the drive letter? Is there an easier less-time-consuming harmless way? Or maybe i should suck it up and leave the drive letter alone?

[sybil]

You can't change the system's drive letter, so it's either reinstall or live with it. Did you already have partitions on the drive with unallocated space to install xp to? That happened when we did my dad's comp. Created 2 partitions for data and left unallocated space for xp - it installed as f. He wanted it to be c, so we removed those partitions, reinstalled xp, then recreated the other partitions.

[bpbpbp]

the entire drive was unformatted, so i allocated 20 GB to install winxp in. I didn't notice that my 2nd drive from before was taking up the letter C. So now it ended up being H. I created/formatted two other partitions on the new drive.

Thanks.