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C:/ and E:/ drives swapped letters after reinstalling

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20262279 views
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I have just reinstalled Windows XP on my machine and something weird happened. I have a DATA partition which used to be I:/ but now after reinstalling it's name is C:/ and the system partition's letter is I:/. The PC is booting on I:/, I can reboot and the new system boots without any problems. But…

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Fix for: C:/ and E:/ drives swapped letters after reinstalling

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By the looks of the screenshot you posted it would appear that you have accidentally created your first partition as an "extended" partition (with your boot "Demarrer"? as a logical partition within it) rather than as a "primary" partition. You can …

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