Need help swapping drive letters

[Zaughtilo]

So I have had a Windows Update for a while that has been trying to be installed but always fail. Recently someone told me that is it because the Drive letters on my SSD and HDD are backwards. So I researched how to swap them. In a youtube video a guy does this quite simply. But he has three drives, and was able to put the page file on the third so that there was no problems changing/deleting the letters of the main two. But I only have two, so it is much more complicated. But I ran into a issue where I could not change SSD even though it does not have a page file.
Starting out I had:
-HDD - D, SSD - C and has boot and page file.
-Need them swapped. Can't change SSD because of page file.
-At this point I would delete HDD's letter so that D is available for SSD, but that has page file so can't. In order to change, need to move page. Only candidate is HDD, but the drive needs a letter in order to do so.
-Change HDD to H, so that D is not taken, and page file can be moved to it.
-HDD - H and has page, SSD - C and is still boot
-Tried to change SSD to D now that it is available and has no page, but does not work. "The parameter is incorrect." I was getting this earlier, but thought it was because the SSD had page file. But I am still getting it even though it no longer does.
-Changed HDD back to D because I had a major issue with Windows not being able to path find correctly with HDD being H, had to boot into Safe Mode to undo it.

So I'm now back to square one. Stuck because I don't know why I was unable to assign D to SSD even though it had no page file in it. I am suspecting it has something to do with the SSD being the boot? How do I swap the letters of two drives when all I have is those two drives?

 

[Snipergod87]

No such thing as backwards drive letters, and it wouldn't cause problem with Windows update. The OS Drive should always be C:\, anything else should be D:\ and after, I would advise against using A: and B: as Windows will still treat them as floppies and not index them.

 

[USAFRet]

So I'm now back to square one. Stuck because I don't know why I was unable to assign D to SSD even though it had no page file in it. I am suspecting it has something to do with the SSD being the boot? How do I swap the letters of two drives when all I have is those two drives?

You can't change the drive letter of the OS drive.
Nor should you even attempt such.

Why are you trying to do this?

 

[Zaughtilo]

So I'm now back to square one. Stuck because I don't know why I was unable to assign D to SSD even though it had no page file in it. I am suspecting it has something to do with the SSD being the boot? How do I swap the letters of two drives when all I have is those two drives?

You can't change the drive letter of the OS drive.
Nor should you even attempt such.

Why are you trying to do this?

Because PC had had a windows update it been trying to do for a while but keeps failing with the error 0x80070011. I made a thread about it on Microsoft forums a while ago but nobody could give a working solution. So a Microsoft rep just told me to download a program from them that makes windows ignore the update and stop trying. I just used that but a couple days ago I got a reply from a guy saying he had the same issue and found that the cause was that he had changed the drive letter of his default installation drive, and once he changed it back it fixed and was able to install the update. I swear I remember changing a drive letter soon after building this PC so I thought maybe something was messed up with them and his solution would work.

 

[USAFRet]

Because PC had had a windows update it been trying to do for a while but keeps failing with the error 0x80070011. I made a thread about it on Microsoft forums a while ago but nobody could give a working solution. So a Microsoft rep just told me to download a program from them that makes windows ignore the update and stop trying. I just used that but a couple days ago I got a reply from a guy saying he had the same issue and found that the cause was that he had changed the drive letter of his default installation drive, and once he changed it back it fixed and was able to install the update. I swear I remember changing a drive letter soon after building this PC so I thought maybe something was messed up with them and his solution would work.

Yes, changing your default installation drive like that WILL bork things like this up.That is why it is NEVER a good idea to force things to always install elsewhere.
Never ever.

You can choose the install path when you install something. But some things...like this Update...must go with the OS.

The change that guy made was in the Registry. Not simply swapping the drive letters around.
And it is and remains a really, really bad idea.


Where, precisely, is your OS?
What drive letter is it under?
Please show us a screencap of what is telling you this.


How to force this update? Try downloading it manually from MS, and installing it manually.

 

[Zaughtilo]

OS is installed in the SSD until drive letter C. I know this because in Disk Management, Boot is under SSD (C: ), and in File Explorer, Windows in under SSD.File Explorer, Windows in under SSD.
https://imgur.com/a/nE4Gk

 

[Snipergod87]

Your drive letters are laid out properly. Nothing to change here.
If you are concerned about the Disk 0 and Disk 1 with the HDD being on top, this does not matter and is only dictated by what SATA port each drive is plugged into on the motherboard, if this bothers you aesthetically you can move the cable from the HDD to the SSD and vice verse.

My disks are laid our the same as yours, except I have page files on both drives
https://imgur.com/a/QTl5a

 

[Paperdoc]

Normally it is not possible to change the letter name of your boot drive. In fact, YOU do not make that decision. The normal boot process includes the fact that Windows itself will assign the name C: to whatever device it just booted from, and then assign letters to other devices according to previous assignments.

 

[Zaughtilo]

Okay so the dude's solution is irrelevant to me. Thanks

 

[Snipergod87]

They are, no reason to waste time barking up the wrong tree.

 

[USAFRet]

OS is installed in the SSD until drive letter C. I know this because in Disk Management, Boot is under SSD (C: ), and in File Explorer, Windows in under SSD.File Explorer, Windows in under SSD.
https://imgur.com/a/nE4Gk

That is laid out pretty much as it should be.
Ignore that thing you found on utube, and concentrate on your actual issue.