Hard Disk

[Guest]

Just installed XP onto a new hard drive on my Laptop. Problem is that I left
my Lacie pluged in while installing XP on my hard drive. The result is that
my local drive has been named 'Local Disk E:\' and my Lacie 'Local Disk C:\'.
I thought this wouldn't be a problem; till I started to try and install some
programs - they don't recognise that E:\ is actually my drive..... They
won't install.

How can I change my drive directories? Swop C:\ for E:\....?

Many Thanks Toby

 

[philo]

Just installed XP onto a new hard drive on my Laptop. Problem is that I left
my Lacie pluged in while installing XP on my hard drive. The result is that
my local drive has been named 'Local Disk E:\' and my Lacie 'Local Disk C:\'.
I thought this wouldn't be a problem; till I started to try and install some
programs - they don't recognise that E:\ is actually my drive..... They
won't install.

How can I change my drive directories? Swop C:\ for E:\....?

Remove your "Lacie" then perform a fresh install of XP

 

[Guest]

Hi Philo

Thanks for replying to my question - performing a 'refresh' of XP - excuse
my ignorance - will this effect any documents I have on my hard drive?

Toby

 

[Malke]

Hi Philo

Thanks for replying to my question - performing a 'refresh' of XP -
excuse my ignorance - will this effect any documents I have on my hard
drive?

Yes. You need to do a clean install of Windows with no peripherals like
your LaCie attached. Back up anything you want to save because it will
be gone when you've finished the install.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows -
What you will need on-hand

Malke

 

[philo]

Yes. You need to do a clean install of Windows with no peripherals like
your LaCie attached. Back up anything you want to save because it will
be gone when you've finished the install.

Yep a backup of all data is in order as a clean install will erase
everything!