Misassigned Drive Letters

[Aaron Costa]

I have a computer here that has started assigning drve
letters at F: including the main boot drive. I was
wondering if there is a setting in Windows that sets the
drive range.

 

[Qwack]

Start/Run/diskmgmt.msc and see if you can correct it there...

 

[chris]

I have a computer here that has started assigning drve
letters at F: including the main boot drive. I was
wondering if there is a setting in Windows that sets the
drive range.

You probably have a zip drive in your computer. Windows XP screws up on
installation and recognizes the zip drive as the first hard drive and
then your hard drive letter is moved to the last drive. (zip = c, cd
drive = d, dvd drive = e, hard drive = f) as a guess as to what you have
in your system.

The Microsoft support site says you will not be able to change the boot
drive letter to C with the disk management tool. They recommend
disconnecting the zip drive, re-installing windows and then connect the
zip drive once the boot drive letter is assigned to C.

Chris