A
Arklier
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?
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?