New HD - XP loaded on F: instead of C: HELP!

[SandyO]

I had a hard drive crash and when I loaded my Win XP on my new HD, it had
made the hard drive F: and my internal Zip Drive is C:.
How can I correct this?
Thanks
SandyO

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Sandy,

Detach the zip drive, reboot to the WinXP CD. Restart setup, remove the
existing system partition, create a new one, format, and start another
installation - this is the only way.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Richard Urban]

As Iomega thinks that their Zip drive is the most important drive in any
computer, they have designed it so that it will always hijack the C
designation for itself if it can. Take the piece of crap out of your
computer and start again. Load the operating system. When you are certain
that you installed it to drive C:, reinstall the Zip drive - if you must!

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Guest]

Hi:
Ontrack in Dos Windows programs use to have a program, that changed the
drive letters and corrected all the instances of where the drive letters
appeared, the program, I cant find anymore, there may be a program out there
that does this.
Regards

 

[Guest]

You can change drive letters very easily, and provided your XP install is on
an active bootable partition you can change the drive letter by the following:

Goto "My Computer">Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>
There you will see a tree table of options, goto Disk Management.

From there you can re-assign your Hard Drive letters, CD/DVD drive letters,
Zip drive letters and Labels as well if you wish.

Of course if your XP installation isn't on the active bootable partition
it's very likely you'll have to start from scratch again.
I used to be able to use a bootdisk with the FDISK utility on in the past,
this still might be a valid option to make your F:\ Drive the active
bootable partition, then re letter it and label it later, but it was so long
ago since I last did that, I'm not sure if that will work with NTFS?

Having said this, my earlier suggestion should enable you to charge the
drive letter of your Zip Drive to one other than C:\

I hope this is of any use to you?

 

[Andy]

I had a hard drive crash and when I loaded my Win XP on my new HD, it had
made the hard drive F: and my internal Zip Drive is C:.
How can I correct this?
Thanks
SandyO

Reinstall using the following steps:
1. Boot from the XP CD.
2. Choose new install.
3. Install onto the partition on your new HD, which Windows setup
should now assign C: to, since it already exists.
4. Choose to reformat the partition.