Help! Reinstalled XP Drive letters changed!

Reinstalled XP on G460 (using F6 option for SATA driver).
After installation, drive C: became drive E:. Unable to change it using disk manager. Also I think some driver installations may not have executed correctly because the scripts were looking for C: drive.
Original (Win7) = Cmain) and DLenovo)
Reinstalled (XP) = C200Mb), DLenovo), and Emain)
How do I change the E: back to C:?

OneKey recovery will work only if your WinXP installation method includes it.    I have a Lenovo 3000N200 which came with Win XP Pro, and I bought the factory WInXP installation discs for this machine.   When I installed those disks to a new blank HDD, the Recovery partition was installed along with the rest of windows.   I have never had to run OneKey Recovery myself.
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