K
KWA
I have a situation I have run into a couple of times when doing a clean
install of Win XP: Even though the main hard drive (the "C:" drive) is
cabled in as the Primary Master and shows as so in BIOS, XP assigns it a
drive letter like "E:".
In my case today, I have my sister-in-laws PC with the following config:
Maxtor 30 GB - Primary Master
Western Digital 30GB - Primary Slave
Zip 100 IDE - Secondary Master
CDRW - Secondary Slave
After loading XP Home I get the following goofy drive letter assignments:
Maxtor 30 GB - Primary Master E:
Western Digital 30GB - Primary Slave F:
Zip 100 IDE - Secondary Master C:
CDRW - Secondary Slave D:
Is there a way to change these to a more conventional setting (Primary
Master = C
?
If this is possible, does that mess up the OS since it installed everything
under the assumption that they had the original drive letter assignments?
Thanks in advance! Keith
install of Win XP: Even though the main hard drive (the "C:" drive) is
cabled in as the Primary Master and shows as so in BIOS, XP assigns it a
drive letter like "E:".
In my case today, I have my sister-in-laws PC with the following config:
Maxtor 30 GB - Primary Master
Western Digital 30GB - Primary Slave
Zip 100 IDE - Secondary Master
CDRW - Secondary Slave
After loading XP Home I get the following goofy drive letter assignments:
Maxtor 30 GB - Primary Master E:
Western Digital 30GB - Primary Slave F:
Zip 100 IDE - Secondary Master C:
CDRW - Secondary Slave D:
Is there a way to change these to a more conventional setting (Primary
Master = C
?If this is possible, does that mess up the OS since it installed everything
under the assumption that they had the original drive letter assignments?
Thanks in advance! Keith