I have no C: drive, but some programs insist on it. What can I do?

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Couldn't you just do a share with the name "C:" ?

Assuming that you have file and printer sharing turned on, then sure, you could set up a share, and then connect to yourself. Slightly more work to set up, but doable.

One addendum: a network share looks like ... well, it looks like a network connection. Not all applications will, in fact, work across a network. SUBST, on the other hand, looks like a local disk drive.

Thanks, Leo. Works like a charm. Techs at the software company which would not install were pleased to know your fix as well. Thanks again, Kathy

I have the same problem, but I used Partition Magic 8 to change the drive letter from I:\ to c:\. This was the worst thing I could have done (it was late at night & i was very tired - big mistake). Now my system won't boot up. My boot up is a dual raid0 system. I have a temporary IDE drive in place to boot from. My files were backed up, but I have an operating system with extensive programs and settings plus my windows XP pro setting anmd configurations, Netscape 8.0 Bookmarks, MS. Outlook email (& extensive calander notes etc) etc that I haven't been able to access.

It goes through half through the boot up sequence and I then get the dreaded blue screen of death that I haven't seen since WIN98 days. It says it the batch file or something like that is corrupt. I know that it is still looking for the operating sstem commends on i:\ when the path to them is now C:\
Can I edit the file from another WinXP Pro operating system?
I read somewhere that I can do a search and replace from I:\ tp c:\, but can't find the site that gave me the instructions. But these instructions may have been done within the same operating system

In your shoes I'd run partition magic to turn C: back into I:.

I can think of no search/replace option that will get every possible place that the "I:" might have been placed.

I can't do that from within that version of windows because it fails to boot up. I tried using an IDE HDD in a removable drive bay with WINXP & P/Magic installed and although it changed the drive letter on the raid set up back to C: in that operating system, I don't believe it could affect the settings within the WIN XP installed on the raid system which still refuses to boot as it has it's own uniqu settings.

Fortunately, I found a ghost image I had of the raid0 drive which was several weeks old. I burnt this onto the raid and it worked, but of course my system and programs work as they did sveral weeks back and I am still in the position where I need to change my operating system path from I:\ to C:\ and at the same time have the disk recognised as a C:\ drive byt he operating system on the raid drive.

Same exact problem (except my hard drive became "E:") - and my iPod was the application that was looking for the "c:" drive. Apple support gave me a Microsoft link with a regedit procedure to change the boot disc back to "c:", but everything I've read above says that may be a bad idea. I will try your fix and see if the iPOD will work with my pc. Thanks.

Hello i got a similar problem to this i think well when i reformated i formated 3 drives c:/ for windows and some programs mainly for windows witch was 4.5 gig and d:/ witch was 70 gig and e:/ witch was 40 gig now the problem is that when i try to install programs "some" of them just install and dont let me choose and install to c: witch is not dat big so now when i got a new program it installs 2 that now i got low disk space is there any way i can change where everything installs to cause some programs dnt let me do it

Yes, your C: is definitely too small. Unfortunately there's no reliable way to move things off of C: after you've installed Windows to C:. (There are hacks that I'm sure people will jump in with, but in my experience they are unreliable and will cause mor problems over time than they solve.)

If you can't repartition, then I would:

- move the swap file to D: or E:
- set the system environment variables TMP and TEMP to a directory on D: or E:
- direct IE to use a directory on D: or E: for temporary internet files.

I'd then clean off the old, respective equivalents on C: and see how much space that gets you.

Sadly installing more software is likely to continue to fill up C:.

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