Local Disk Drive I: vs C:

[John]

My Windows XP proffessional came with Local Disk Drive I:
instead of C; Is there any significance to this. Anything
I read still refers to the hard drive as C:. I believe
this might be causing me difficulty in downloading
software from HP website for my HP scanner 3400c. Anyone
else has an I: drive instead of a C:? Has it caused any
problems?

 

[Colin Painter]

Properly written scripts and applications should not have a problem with
your system living on I instead of C. In the best of all possible worlds, it
would not matter. However, human beings, being imperfect, are capable of
hard coding C into a script or hunk of code and that could indeed cause a
problem for you. It seems unlikely that downloading itself would break
because of this. I suggest you contact HP for some assistance.

 

[davetest]

My Windows XP proffessional came with Local Disk Drive I:
instead of C; Is there any significance to this. Anything
I read still refers to the hard drive as C:. I believe
this might be causing me difficulty in downloading
software from HP website for my HP scanner 3400c. Anyone
else has an I: drive instead of a C:? Has it caused any
problems?

When you look in "my computer" do you see c: and I:
or just i: ? What about diskmgmt.msc ?
I have xp installed into my f: drive, but it's a logical
partition; I still have C: as primary/boot drive.
(which contains another OS)

Systemroot is f:\windows everything installs and works fine.
Dave