How did G: become my system drive?????

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nuffnough

Hey there.

I am not a n00b by any stretch. I've prolly built 50 or more XP boxes,
but I jsut got a weird (and very frustrating!!) thing happening to me.


I have upgraded a PC from win98 SE to WinXP. She had a bunch of stuff
on some very very old hard drives and she had no idea what she wanted
to keep and what she could lose, so I bought her a new 250gig HD and
created a fresh 20gig partition to install the OS on to.

I add all the other drives after the system is built, and it is great.
Sees them all fine. I create a new partition with the remaining space
of the new hard drive using the DIsk Management Applet. Because of all
the existing older drives, the next available drive is G:. No
worries, I think. I will just reset that to D: after I copy all the
crap from the other drives over to it.

Only thing is, somehow this thing's been set to be the System drive.
How could that happen??? IT wasn't even existing as a partition when
the thing was built?

More importantly now, how can I reset it to D: like I want? Can I set
my C: to System like it should be?

TIA


nuffnough
 
Might be easier to start again, disconect all drives but a cd and the hd
(you want as sys hd)
boot from winxp cd partition/format install, provided you have the win9* cd
available to point to when upgrade asks for it.
Once running connect other drives
 
Hey there.

I am not a n00b by any stretch. I've prolly built 50 or more XP boxes,
but I jsut got a weird (and very frustrating!!) thing happening to me.


I have upgraded a PC from win98 SE to WinXP. She had a bunch of stuff
on some very very old hard drives and she had no idea what she wanted
to keep and what she could lose, so I bought her a new 250gig HD and
created a fresh 20gig partition to install the OS on to.
Click to expand...

If the Windows XP CD incorporates SP1 or 2, creating both partitions
during setup will assign C and D to them during installation of
Windows.
I add all the other drives after the system is built, and it is great.
Sees them all fine. I create a new partition with the remaining space
of the new hard drive using the DIsk Management Applet. Because of all
the existing older drives, the next available drive is G:. No
worries, I think. I will just reset that to D: after I copy all the
crap from the other drives over to it.
Click to expand...

Not that it should matter, but you should have created the second
partition on the new drive and made it D: before connecting the old
drives.
Only thing is, somehow this thing's been set to be the System drive.
How could that happen??? IT wasn't even existing as a partition when
the thing was built?
Click to expand...

If it's truly a system drive per Microsoft's terminology, then it has
to be an active primary partition.
More importantly now, how can I reset it to D: like I want? Can I set
my C: to System like it should be?
Click to expand...

Make it the active partition.
 
I have upgraded a PC from win98 SE to WinXP. She had a bunch of stuff
on some very very old hard drives and she had no idea what she wanted
to keep and what she could lose, so I bought her a new 250gig HD and
created a fresh 20gig partition to install the OS on to.

I add all the other drives after the system is built, and it is great.
Click to expand...


Sounds as if the box has an internal card reader with 4 slots.
I've absolutely no clue what MS thinks it's good for to assign
the low letters to USB drives but the XP setup does.
If it is a card reader, disconnect it or disable USB in the BIOS
while setup.


Greetings from Germany

Uwe
 
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