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New hard drive and fresh Windows XP install. Drive letter questio

 
 
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      19th Aug 2004
My system had one drive partitioned into two drives (C and D). The system
also had two optical drives (one DVD and one CD) on another IDE channel.

Last night I added a new hard drive to my system as the primary drive, and
installed Windows XP on it. The old drive was kept and placed as the slave
on the same IDE channel.

Everything works just fine and all drives are recognized, BUT my new drive
is showing up as drive G, when I expected it to show up as drive C, and have
the old drive show up as D and E. Instead, the old drive is still C and D,
the opticals are this E and F and the new drive is G!

The boot really does occur on drive G so everything works, but I don't like
the names reversed that way.

How do I get Windows to rename the drives (make G, C....C, D....D, E...etc.)?

BTW, I tried to reboot from CD and see that it shows the drives in the right
order (the new drive is C, the old one is D and E).

Thanks!
 
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