bad path for hard drive

[Guest]

I saw this response to an earlier post:

There is a bug in the XP installation program whereby it fails to properly
identify and enumerate system drives. It letters removable drives first.
There is no way to change your system drive assignment except to disconnect
the card slots and reinstall XP. However, most programs should properly
identify the system drive regardless. Since you give no indication of what
installs you're talking about, no advice on that issue is possible.

This seems to be my problem. I recently re-installed XP, and it labelled my
hard drive as E: . I'd like to re-re-install XP and properly assign my
system drives. How do I disconnect my card slots? My C: drive is a
removable drive. I don't even know what that is. If I disconnect these card
slots, will XP prompt me to reconnect them after my hard drive is identified
so that they can be recognized as well?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I saw this response to an earlier post:

There is a bug in the XP installation program whereby it fails to
properly identify and enumerate system drives. It letters
removable drives first. There is no way to change your system drive
assignment except to disconnect the card slots and reinstall XP.
However, most programs should properly identify the system drive
regardless. Since you give no indication of what installs you're
talking about, no advice on that issue is possible.

This seems to be my problem. I recently re-installed XP, and it
labelled my hard drive as E: . I'd like to re-re-install XP and
properly assign my system drives. How do I disconnect my card
slots? My C: drive is a removable drive. I don't even know what
that is. If I disconnect these card slots, will XP prompt me to
reconnect them after my hard drive is identified so that they can
be recognized as well?

If you are performing a clean installation of Windows XP - have only the
essentials physically connected to your PC. Motherboard (with memory and
processor), Video Card, CD Drive, Hard Disk Drive, Monitor, keyboard, mouse
and the power to all of those things. If you have a ZIP drive or some USB
drives or even a printer - disconnect it until you have finished your
install - that includes internal ZIP drives.

Once you have just the bare minimum connected - you should be able to boot
from the XP CD, delete any partitions on the drive, create new ones, formata
and install Windows XP. It would be best to have an SP2 integrated
installation CD. Once that is done, you can power down and install all of
the extra hardware again.. You might want to do it one component at a time -
just to avoid confusion.

 

[Guest]

thank you for responding. XP identified my CD drive (D ahead of my hard
drive (H. How to I avoid this? And what is the removable drive that XP
identified as C:?
How do I disconnect?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

thank you for responding. XP identified my CD drive (D ahead of
my hard drive (H. How to I avoid this? And what is the
removable drive that XP identified as C:?
How do I disconnect?

Uhm - what is identified as "C:"?
SOMETHING must be C...?

 

[Guest]

oops, you're right. it's my regular disk drive.

Uhm - what is identified as "C:"?
SOMETHING must be C...?