Changing the drive letter of boot drives

[zaboa22]

I recently just upgraded my SSD from 120gb to 240gb. My old 120gb is the one that I put the boot drive on and I assigned it the drive letter 'C'. I am in the process of cloning my 120gb drive to my 240gb and I wanted to make the 240gb drive the new 'C' drive but I read that you can't change letters of boot drives. Before I go ahead and clone my two drives, is there anything I can/should do in order to make my 240gb drive my new 'C' drive once I'm done cloning everything?

 

[RealBeast]

If your cloning software allows you to not assign the new SSD a drive letter when you clone, then when you switch out the drives it should be labeled as C. I've done this many many times and never had an issue.

And don't forget to check the option to resize drive to fill unallocated space if that is an option in your cloning software.

 

[Paperdoc]

It's true you cannot (normally) change the letter name of the boot drive. However, that is because the system ASSIGNS the name C: to the drive it just booted from. So once you make your clone to the new SSD and install it, it WILL be the C: drive.

Echo what RealBeast said: make sure you re-size the new drive to be the full space available on that SSD, and not just the size of the old SSD unit.

Also, after you do the cloning, I recommend you disconnect the old SSD and plug its cable into the new one. That way the new one will be found on the SAME mobo SATA port that the old one was, and the entire boot process will be simple. After that is done, if you plan to use the old SSD as additional storage as a second drive, plug it into a different SATA port.