changing drive letters

[the_cheat]

My hard drive recently crashed and I bought a new one. I was completed the windows xp pro install and noticed that the hard drive it was installed on was lettered I. I have an internal flash reader installed and for whatever reason windows assigned C: to one of the flash readers.

While installing drivers last night the default path was to the C: drive and I had to go through each one and change it to the I: drive. So it changing the I: drive back to the C: drive worth it and does it really matter?? I realize everything will work fine but I'm curious to know if there is some hidden reason why the OS should be installed on the C: drive. Also if I choose to switch the I: drive to the C: drive will all of the drivers/programs I've installed work correctly when I change the letter?

 

[Cromewell]

I would just leave it. Changing the system drive letter can do bad things. Properly written installers should be able to recognize that C is not the right drive. If you change the letter to C there's no gurantee that you will be able to boot your computer.

 

[the_cheat]

That's what I figured. I'd rather not go through the hassle of changing it and then having nothing work. I'll just keep it the same.