Boot Drive Letter E:

[Brian Conner]

I've installed and reinstalled Windows SP and both times
it made the boot drive E:.

The first time I had an Iomega Zip drive installed as the
Secondary Slave drive, and I understnad that will cause
this problem.

But I unplugged the Zip before I reinstalled, and I
choose New Installation and checked the box to be given a
choice for the boot drive letter. I was never given that
choice and the boot drive is E: once again.

How can I solve this?

 

[Guest]

Additional info below.

-----Original Message-----
I've installed and reinstalled Windows SP and both times
it made the boot drive E:.

The first time I had an Iomega Zip drive installed as the
Secondary Slave drive, and I understnad that will cause
this problem.

But I unplugged the Zip before I reinstalled, and I
choose New Installation and checked the box to be given a
choice for the boot drive letter. I was never given that
choice and the boot drive is E: once again.

How can I solve this?
.

Asus P4PE Black Pearl motherboard in Antec 1080 case
P4 2.66GHz 533MHz FSB
2 X 512MB PC2700 RAM
Hitachi GXP180 120GB boot drive
Pioneer DVR-106 DVD-R, CD-RW
Iomga 250MB atapi Zip drive
Windows XP Pro SP1 Full install version

 

[Brian Conner]

Sorry, I'm new on this board and I forgot to change the
Sender's Name & E-mail in the previous post.

Brian Conner

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Brian,

Use the XP disk to remove the existing already-labeled drives and create new
ones, then you should get the option to choose the boot letter. If there is
any data currently on the drive, it will be lost doing this. By the way,
there is no rule that the boot drive has to be C:\, it can be E:\ and run
along just fine.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone