Hi,
You are booting from the sata drive (hence the 'system' designation). Until
you change it to boot from a different drive (preferably the same as the
'boot' volume), you will not be able to change that volume letter.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
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> Hi,
>
> I have a system with two SCSI drives and two SATA drives. One of the SCSI
> drives is the boot
> drive showing up as 'C:' drive in my system. The other SCSI is a data
> drive. The two SATAs are also for data.Under 'Disk Management' in
> 'Computer Management', I am trying to change the drive letter of one of my
> SATA drives.
>
> This drive has data from a previous installation of Vista, however, it was
> not used for system files nor was it used for page files.
> Unfortunately, when I try and change the drive letter (right clicking on
> the partion in the 'Disk Management' Window and then clicking 'Change
> Drive Letter and Paths...),
> I get the following error message:
>
> Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your volume. This may happen if
> your volume is a system or boot drive, or has pages files.
>
> Also, the descriptor text in the partition window contains the following:
> Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition). Other than my boot 'C:'drive
> which says: "Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)",
> the remaining drives in this PC are described as : 'Healthy (Primary
> Partition)'.
>
> I have had no trouble changing the drive letters of the one remaining SCSI
> (the non C drive) and the other SATA drive.
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can change that drive letter?
>
> Thanks,
> Shane