When I reinstalled, I disconnected the IDE drive or else Windows
automatically assigned it as C. Then when everything is set, I reconnected
it. The bios setting hasn't changed either.
"John Barnes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When you reinstalled, you had the IDE drive a the priority drive in the
> boot sequence (intentionally, or system assigned) and therefore you have
> installed the boot files on that drive. Copy the boot files to your OS
> drive, change the priority in the BIOS and if you can't boot, use recovery
> console to build a new boot.ini file with the proper addressing of your OS
> in it. Make sure that your OS is on the active partition of the SATA
> drive.
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>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> "tiki2k" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>> My main drive is a SATA drive which is partitioned into drive C and D. C
>>> being the OS boot drive and D is just for data. I also have an IDE drive
>>> that I use for backups. In Disk Management, the SATA drive (C & D) is
>>> Disk
>> 1
>>> while the IDE drive is Disk 0.
>>> I just reinstalled my XP Pro but now I can't change my IDE drive's
>>> letter.
>>> It tells me that Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system
>>> volume or boot volume. I was able to specify a drive letter for this
>>> disk
>>> before but why not now?
>>
>> You write "I just reinstalled my XP Pro" but you don't tell us where
>> you installed it to. Which drive letter? And what drive letter is you
>> IDE drive?
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