Drive Letter Assignment

[Frank]

I reformatted my C: drive prior to installing XP just so I
would have a clean install. The install went fine and it
works fine but XP assigned F: as the drive letter of my
primary master drive that the operating system is
installed on. My primary slave is now C:, secondary master
(CD-RW) is D: and secondary slave (CD-ROM) is E: . Is this
a problem and has anybody ever seen this happen?

 

[Frank]

I assume you have your hard drive jumpers set properly as master and slave.
Before installing any other programs I would change the drive letters using
the disk manager in admin services of the control panel.

 

[David Leon]

My hard drive is the primary master and CD-ROM is the secondary master. When
I set up partitions on my hard drive, the first is naturally C: but the next
becomes E: When I delete them both and try again (within Windows setup), the
letters change to C: and D:, the way I want them. It's weird but hope it
helps.

You can change your drive letters in the Disk Management section of Computer
Management (Control Panel>Performance and Maintenance>Administrative
Tools>Computer Management).

 

[Alex Nichol]

I reformatted my C: drive prior to installing XP just so I
would have a clean install. The install went fine and it
works fine but XP assigned F: as the drive letter of my
primary master drive that the operating system is
installed on.

This happens if you have a ZIP drive connected at the time of setup -
and I am told has been found to happen with other removable devices like
a USB hard drive or flash media adapter. Only way out is to start over,
delete the partition and reinstall, *without* such things present,
adding them once the system is running