Missing Folder and Drive Icons when installing to E:

[Guest]

My IDE hard drive went out and I had to buy another drive. Well, I bought a Serial ATA (SATA) drive which acts and boots like a SCSI drive. While installing WinXP Pro, I didn't have any hard drives connected to the onboard IDE and when I installed WinXP Pro it saw the SATA drive as E:

Having the system on drive E is not a problem for me but it wouldn't let me change it to C (presumably because the IDE controller reserving C and D?). Anyway, the OS installed just fine except Windows Explorer is missing ALL it's icon representations such as the yellow folders and drive icons when listing the contents of Drive E. Windows Explorer still functions fine but I'm a little worried that other areas may be affected in this way.

I tried changing the visual style theme but it had no effect. When I added one of my data drives back to the IDE controller (which set the drive as C the icons in Explorer magically re-appeared even though there are no system files on C:

Is this a bug in the OS that still requires a C: to be present before it finds the files in the real location (such as Drive E)?

Best Regards,
Lon

 

[Wendy]

I had the same problem with SATA drives and it put the OS
onto J. I found the fix for getting the folder icons into
Windows Explorer. Start -> Run -> cmd -> subst c: j:\.
But when I did that, it showed a C drive and a J
drive...both being the 2 SATA drives that are mirrored.

-----Original Message-----
My IDE hard drive went out and I had to buy another

drive. Well, I bought a Serial ATA (SATA) drive which
acts and boots like a SCSI drive. While installing WinXP
Pro, I didn't have any hard drives connected to the
onboard IDE and when I installed WinXP Pro it saw the
SATA drive as E:

Having the system on drive E is not a problem for me but

it wouldn't let me change it to C (presumably because the
IDE controller reserving C and D?). Anyway, the OS
installed just fine except Windows Explorer is missing
ALL it's icon representations such as the yellow folders
and drive icons when listing the contents of Drive E.
Windows Explorer still functions fine but I'm a little
worried that other areas may be affected in this way.

I tried changing the visual style theme but it had no

effect. When I added one of my data drives back to the
IDE controller (which set the drive as C the icons in
Explorer magically re-appeared even though there are no
system files on C:

Is this a bug in the OS that still requires a C: to be

present before it finds the files in the real location
(such as Drive E)?