HDD=H drive

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Built this box about a year ago, Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL, Athlon XP 2500 with
SATA HDD. Win XP Home

Never thought much about it, but buddy was over and asked why I had an H
drive as my local disk, not C. Said that's what Windows assigned when it
set up, and told him I didn't know, but would ask those more knowledgeable
than me. (Just a part time tinkerer)

Know I could reassign drives, but never was an issue to me.

Now I'm curious.

Drive letters are: CD-Rom D: CDRW G: SATA HDD H:

Thanks
Mark
 
pheasant said:
Built this box about a year ago, Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL, Athlon XP 2500 with
SATA HDD. Win XP Home

Never thought much about it, but buddy was over and asked why I had an H
drive as my local disk, not C. Said that's what Windows assigned when it
set up, and told him I didn't know, but would ask those more knowledgeable
than me. (Just a part time tinkerer)

Know I could reassign drives, but never was an issue to me.

Now I'm curious.

Drive letters are: CD-Rom D: CDRW G: SATA HDD H:

Thanks
Mark
Click to expand...

Simplified version: Windows XP does not determine drive letters in the same
manner as Windows98, which scans for drives, by type, in a specific order.
Windows XP assigns them in the order detected by Plug and Play. Note, it's
not really 'drives' that count; it's partitions that are assigned letters.

In your case, SATA was detected after the others so the drive's partition
got 'H'.
 
pheasant said:
Built this box about a year ago, Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL, Athlon XP 2500 with
SATA HDD. Win XP Home

Never thought much about it, but buddy was over and asked why I had an H
drive as my local disk, not C.
Click to expand...

For more information, try following this path.
Start - All Programs - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk
Management

If Administrative Tools is not under All Programs then you'll have to get
to it some other way.







Said that's what Windows assigned when it
 
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pheasant wrote:
Click to expand...
Simplified version: Windows XP does not determine drive letters in the
same manner as Windows98, which scans for drives, by type, in a specific
order. Windows XP assigns them in the order detected by Plug and Play.
Note, it's not really 'drives' that count; it's partitions that are
assigned letters.

In your case, SATA was detected after the others so the drive's partition
got 'H'.
Click to expand...

Thanks David!

If you could do brain surgery with a 3 pound sledge and a #2 phillips
screwdriver I'd be right in style. The letters ain't gonna change. ;)
Mark
 
Re: Boot drive assigned H:

If you install win XP with a multiformat USB card reader attached, the 4
types of flash memory card use up drives C: D: E: F:, which is also a
nuisance.

I always install with a single hdd and a single cd rom.

E
 
Eddie said:
Re: Boot drive assigned H:

If you install win XP with a multiformat USB card reader attached, the 4
types of flash memory card use up drives C: D: E: F:, which is also a
nuisance.
Click to expand...

Oh, that's cute. Thanks for the tip.
 
Eddie B. said:
Re: Boot drive assigned H:

If you install win XP with a multiformat USB card reader attached, the 4
types of flash memory card use up drives C: D: E: F:, which is also a
nuisance.

I always install with a single hdd and a single cd rom.
Click to expand...

BINGO!!!!!

This is EXACTLY what I put in to catch the kids' digital camera memory.

So for future reference, when loading WXP into a box, start with a cd rom
and hdd, load windows, then add the memory card reader.

This is a great tip.
 
BINGO!!!!!

This is EXACTLY what I put in to catch the kids' digital camera memory.

So for future reference, when loading WXP into a box, start with a cd rom
and hdd, load windows, then add the memory card reader.

This is a great tip.
Click to expand...
Actually, it's not necessary to remove any storage devices before
installing Windows XP. In your situation, when you created the
partition, Windows XP setup program assigned H: to it because of the
existence of the USB card reader. At that point, all you have to do is
abort the installation (hit F3 twice). When you restart the
installation, Windows XP setup will assign C: to the now existing
partition on the new hard drive. This technique is much simpler, and
you don't run the risk of damaging something by removing connectors
unnecessarily.
 
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