Desperately, trying to install Windows XP. Help, please

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Alvaro Mejia

I installed Windows XP professional. The hard drive format step assigned the
letter E to the previous C drive.



I have two hard drives. At the beginning of the installation, they were C
and F. I have two CD drives. At the beginning of the installation, they were
D and E. I had a very problematic Windows XP on disk C and decided to
install it from scratch. I mounted the system CD on drive E. At the end of
the formatting, drive C was assigned E which was disconcerting. It meant
there were two drives E (the hard drive and the CD drive). Windows seems to
be comfortable on the first hard disk, which is now E. This seemed wrong to
me and decided to do it all over again.



The hard disks are (hardware-wise) disk zero, Id 0 and disk zero, Id 1.
Using "Partition Magic" I formatted the first disk, then tried to install
Windows again, and this time the setup program tried to install Windows on
disk F. Now my F drive, second on the chain, which is my data disk, has
problems and is producing errors. Windows continues not installed.



Is there a way to control the assignment of drive letters? Is there a way to
tell the Windows setup program where to install the operating system as
oposed to letting the blindly random assignment by software whose rules I do
not know?



Thank you very much.

Alvaro
 
Alvaro Mejia said:
I installed Windows XP professional. The hard drive format step assigned the
letter E to the previous C drive.



I have two hard drives. At the beginning of the installation, they were C
and F. I have two CD drives. At the beginning of the installation, they were
D and E. I had a very problematic Windows XP on disk C and decided to
install it from scratch. I mounted the system CD on drive E. At the end of
the formatting, drive C was assigned E which was disconcerting. It meant
there were two drives E (the hard drive and the CD drive). Windows seems to
be comfortable on the first hard disk, which is now E. This seemed wrong to
me and decided to do it all over again.



The hard disks are (hardware-wise) disk zero, Id 0 and disk zero, Id 1.
Using "Partition Magic" I formatted the first disk, then tried to install
Windows again, and this time the setup program tried to install Windows on
disk F. Now my F drive, second on the chain, which is my data disk, has
problems and is producing errors. Windows continues not installed.



Is there a way to control the assignment of drive letters? Is there a way to
tell the Windows setup program where to install the operating system as
oposed to letting the blindly random assignment by software whose rules I do
not know?



Thank you very much.

Alvaro
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If you disconnect all mass storage devices other than one hard
disk and one CD drive, and if you allow the installation process
to delete, recreate and format your system partition then this
system partition will be visible as drive C:.
 
I installed Windows XP professional. The hard drive format step assigned the
letter E to the previous C drive.



I have two hard drives. At the beginning of the installation, they were C
and F. I have two CD drives. At the beginning of the installation, they were
D and E. I had a very problematic Windows XP on disk C and decided to
install it from scratch. I mounted the system CD on drive E. At the end of
the formatting, drive C was assigned E which was disconcerting. It meant
there were two drives E (the hard drive and the CD drive). Windows seems to
be comfortable on the first hard disk, which is now E. This seemed wrong to
me and decided to do it all over again.



The hard disks are (hardware-wise) disk zero, Id 0 and disk zero, Id 1.
Using "Partition Magic" I formatted the first disk, then tried to install
Windows again, and this time the setup program tried to install Windows on
disk F. Now my F drive, second on the chain, which is my data disk, has
problems and is producing errors. Windows continues not installed.



Is there a way to control the assignment of drive letters? Is there a way to
tell the Windows setup program where to install the operating system as
oposed to letting the blindly random assignment by software whose rules I do
not know?
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This has been posted and answered previously??
 
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