It will not allow me to remove my drive letter

[tahstylo]

In short i'm trying to change my hard drive drive letter to anything other than C so that my new SSD can be that one.

I tried to remove the letter but it came up with this.

any help appreciated, I'm depserate now, please.

Thanks in advance!

 

[jimmysmitty]

If this is the HDD you are loaded to then you cannot change it. The only way to change it would be to install Windows on the SSD then plug the HDD in and change it when it is not loaded.

 

[USAFRet]

In short i'm trying to change my hard drive drive letter to anything other than C so that my new SSD can be that one.

You're going about it the wrong way.

How are you putting the OS on the SSD?
Whatever drive Windows boots from, it will see itself as the "C" drive.

 

[tahstylo]

If this is the HDD you are loaded to then you cannot change it. The only way to change it would be to install Windows on the SSD then plug the HDD in and change it when it is not loaded.

Okay so for starters i've realised I've done some stupid things, that lead up to this point but basically I cloned my HDD onto the SSD today and so windows should be on it right?

 

[USAFRet]

If this is the HDD you are loaded to then you cannot change it. The only way to change it would be to install Windows on the SSD then plug the HDD in and change it when it is not loaded.

Okay so for starters i've realised I've done some stupid things, that lead up to this point but basically I cloned my HDD onto the SSD today and so windows should be on it right?

Here, and in your other thread...

You need to start over.
Your SSD should NOT end up as the B drive. At all. Ever.

So....Assuming you have not wiped out your old HDD
Redo the clone thing.
When it is done, power off
Disconnect the old HDD
Power on, and check the boot order in the BIOS. SSD first.
Continue the boot, and see if it starts up properly.

 

[tahstylo]

If this is the HDD you are loaded to then you cannot change it. The only way to change it would be to install Windows on the SSD then plug the HDD in and change it when it is not loaded.

Okay so for starters i've realised I've done some stupid things, that lead up to this point but basically I cloned my HDD onto the SSD today and so windows should be on it right?

Here, and in your other thread...

You need to start over.
Your SSD should NOT end up as the B drive. At all. Ever.

So....Assuming you have not wiped out your old HDD
Redo the clone thing.
When it is done, power off
Disconnect the old HDD
Power on, and check the boot order in the BIOS. SSD first.
Continue the boot, and see if it starts up properly.

Firstly, didn't know what the drive lettering actually did, like I said I did do something stupid and i'm now paying the consequences.
I haven't wiped out my old hard drive as such but it's not all there that's for sure, I have literally no idea how to "undo" the clone also. What do i want on the HDD before powering off as such?

 

[USAFRet]

What application did you use to do this clone thing?

 

[tahstylo]

What application did you use to do this clone thing?

Macrium also just so you know my HDD is 121GB and my SSD is now 117gb so there's some difference but windows is defo on both.

{edit} just realised you said re-do not undo that makes your suggestion seem alot more viable. Takes a good hour or 2 so i i'll try the following tomorrow

• 
  Format my SSD / wipe it clean sorta thing.
  Get on Macrium and Clone my hard drive to my SSD
  turn off the PC and unplug the hard drive
  make sure the SSD is #1 in the bios if it turns on see what letter it is.
  plug the hard drive back in and make sure the ssd is still #1 and see if it loads up.
  If all is good then i can wipe everything off the old hard drive and just use the SSD as the best one from now on

 

[USAFRet]

What application did you use to do this clone thing?

Macrium also just so you know my HDD is 121GB and my SSD is now 117gb so there's some difference but windows is defo on both.

OK.
Redo the clone application from step 1.
When it is done, power off
Disconnect the HDD
power up

When you power up, check the boot order in the BIOS. SSD first
When you continue booting up, it should (hopefully) work.
It should boot properly, with ONLY the SSD connected.
And it should see itself as the C drive
Verify this, power on and off a time or two.

If it actually works from the SSD only, remove the HDD from the BIOS boot order
Reconnect the HDD
Wipe it and use as needed

 

[USAFRet]

What application did you use to do this clone thing?

Macrium also just so you know my HDD is 121GB and my SSD is now 117gb so there's some difference but windows is defo on both.

The 'difference' is..Macrium does not migrate the pagefile, hibernation file, or temp files. Which is a good thing