On Friday I was playing City of Villains, and suddenly the program
froze. I used task manager to end it, then got the 'send an error
report' window briefly. A few seconds later, the entire computer froze,
so I hit the reset button. The main hard drive starts making *whir whir
click* sounds, and I get the error: "Non system disk or disk error.
Please insert system disk." I yell out "Son of a *****!" That's the
second Western Digital I've had give out on me with no warning. Lovely.
I suspect Longbow involvement here.

But seriously, I have a secondary drive E: (a 300GB Seagate), but I use
it to do video capture, which works best if you save your files to a
hard drive other than the one the OS and swap file is on. So I went out
and bought another hard drive (this one a 300GB Maxtor). I had planned
on assigning the Maxtor to C: and keeping the Seagate for video capture
as E:. They are both SATA drives. The Maxtor is plugged into the same
SATA port on the motherboard that the WD was.

Well, I found out once Windows XP Home was installed it assigned the
Maxtor as E: and now the Windows directory is E:\Windows. Yay. I'm
debating whether it's worth the trouble to switch the drive letters and
reinstall Windows. I've had Windows installed on a drive other than C:
before, but some programs default to C: even if Windows is installed on
another drive. It's just an irritation more than anything else. Is
there any easy way to switch the drive letters without having to
reinstall Windows again?

Hi mate,

sorry I've got bad news.

I've just ran in to this little windows error recently and after a lot of
digging about the answer appears to be ...No. There does not seem to be a way
to change your system drive letter after windows has installed.

I also tried a repair on the installation and even though XP setup stated
that it had found a previous installation on C: after it had finished it's
repair low and behold explorer still had it down as E:

Delete the windows partition, quick format and start again. Sorry

"Arklier" wrote:

> On Friday I was playing City of Villains, and suddenly the program
> froze. I used task manager to end it, then got the 'send an error
> report' window briefly. A few seconds later, the entire computer froze,
> so I hit the reset button. The main hard drive starts making *whir whir
> click* sounds, and I get the error: "Non system disk or disk error.
> Please insert system disk." I yell out "Son of a *****!" That's the
> second Western Digital I've had give out on me with no warning. Lovely.
> I suspect Longbow involvement here.
>
> But seriously, I have a secondary drive E: (a 300GB Seagate), but I use
> it to do video capture, which works best if you save your files to a
> hard drive other than the one the OS and swap file is on. So I went out
> and bought another hard drive (this one a 300GB Maxtor). I had planned
> on assigning the Maxtor to C: and keeping the Seagate for video capture
> as E:. They are both SATA drives. The Maxtor is plugged into the same
> SATA port on the motherboard that the WD was.
>
> Well, I found out once Windows XP Home was installed it assigned the
> Maxtor as E: and now the Windows directory is E:\Windows. Yay. I'm
> debating whether it's worth the trouble to switch the drive letters and
> reinstall Windows. I've had Windows installed on a drive other than C:
> before, but some programs default to C: even if Windows is installed on
> another drive. It's just an irritation more than anything else. Is
> there any easy way to switch the drive letters without having to
> reinstall Windows again?
>
>