Disk order

[Guest]

I have just upgraded my computer and want to do a fresh install on winxp pro, originally I have 1 pata harddisk (primary master), dvdrom (secondary master) and cdrw (secondary slave), I have added an SATA harddisk (seagate 80G), winxp install runs smoothy but when I boot it up after setup, winxp assigned drive F: to my SATA harddisk (which is the boot disk) and C: is assigned to my original ata harddisk and marked it as system disk, (D: and E: are dvdrom and cdrw) is there a way to set my sata harddisk to drive C: and marked as both boot disk and system disk? I dont mind reinstalling, I just want it as C: as I may remove my old pata harddisk later

 

[JBM]

I have just upgraded my computer and want to do a fresh install on winxp

pro, originally I have 1 pata harddisk (primary master), dvdrom (secondary
master) and cdrw (secondary slave), I have added an SATA harddisk (seagate
80G), winxp install runs smoothy but when I boot it up after setup, winxp
assigned drive F: to my SATA harddisk (which is the boot disk) and C: is
assigned to my original ata harddisk and marked it as system disk, (D: and
E: are dvdrom and cdrw) is there a way to set my sata harddisk to drive C:
and marked as both boot disk and system disk? I dont mind reinstalling, I
just want it as C: as I may remove my old pata harddisk later

I had basically the same problem and solved it by temporarily removing the
PATA drive and installing
XP on my SATA drive and then reinstalling the PATA
drive.

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

You can manually change the drive letters in the registry under
MountedDevices as well.