Need help change local disk E: to C:

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littlenlnga

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Hello. How would i change my local disk E: to local disk C:?
I know its just a letter.. but the letter E is preventing me from installing my hp officejet printer. When i install the hp officejet driver it stops installing and says " The system cannot find the path specified. File C:/Temp/HP_WebRelease"
Help is greatly appreciated thanks!
 
The installation must have taken place with more then one hard drive installed to assign that install to E with a single optical drive being D. The installation on that drive would have taken place after the other drive already saw a working copy of Windows as C. Even if all of the boot information is on that drive Windows apparently was customed installed elsewhere to a second copy offset.

You won't like the solution. That would a total wipe with no other hard drive on to see a clean install of Windows then become it's own default C. First check to see if that's the case where a second drive or primary other then a hidden recovery partition is present.
 
PC eye is right.
Install Windows with only the target hard drive connected.
Once Windows has finished installing, you can then connect the other drives (power down first).
 
The only time you see Windows as D, E, F, or another letter while in it is from some type of custom or duplicate copy. That copy sees itself as E. Is this being seen on a used system by chance? That would be where someone else made a mess of things if you bought the system used.
 
Did you install Windows on a second partition? That would easily explain the shift in the default letter assigned. If you originally created two one being intended for storage but ended installed Windows there instead that would explain the shift.

If you made two like it sounds take a look in the Disk Management tool to see all partions/drives shown there. Windows has to go on the first primary that starts at the beginning of a drive to see itself as C.
 
I wouldn't change it because then you have to change all the file path associations.
 
Your smart move is to see how Windows went on in the first since you will likely end up needing to redo everything all over from the start. You saw a bad install of Windows to start with.
 
I know you guys have stated that I should do a good install of window but I have a lot of valuable software and files on the computer. Do you think i could alter the software so it installs the files on E: instead of being C: right now? Do you think i should tell hp and maybe they would send me an altered one? Is there anything i could do instead of reinstalling windows?
 
Out of interest run "regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion , in the right hand pane there should be a key called "ProgramFilesDir". Read across to the right and post back what the default drive letter and directory all installs default to.

Some programs give you the option on where to install but if not then it uses this registry key as default
 
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