New WinXP installed itself on H: drive

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My wife has just installed WinXP Home on a new PC which had one raw
120gb hard drive and found it has set the 3 partitions she created as
H: (WinXP) I: (Apps) J: (Data), instead of the normal C:,D:,E:. Her
only other drive is a CD-RW/DVD combo which appears as D:.
3 removable drives have appeared,labelled E:,F:,G:.... but in fact she
has no removeable drives, these would seem to be the USB ports on the
motherboard!!

Any idea what might have gone wrong and how it might be fixed?

Could she use Partition Magic or a similar utility, since the XP Disk
Manager will not allow her to change the system drive letter?

Or is the best solution to start again, reinstall Win XP?

Thanks for any guidance
 
driver said:
My wife has just installed WinXP Home on a new PC which had one raw
120gb hard drive and found it has set the 3 partitions she created as
H: (WinXP) I: (Apps) J: (Data), instead of the normal C:,D:,E:. Her
only other drive is a CD-RW/DVD combo which appears as D:.
3 removable drives have appeared,labelled E:,F:,G:.... but in fact she
has no removeable drives, these would seem to be the USB ports on the
motherboard!!

Any idea what might have gone wrong and how it might be fixed?

Could she use Partition Magic or a similar utility, since the XP Disk
Manager will not allow her to change the system drive letter?

Or is the best solution to start again, reinstall Win XP?

Thanks for any guidance
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Have her to redo the installation and this time delete all the current
partitions. When prompted, create the XP partition only [I recommend 10
gig], leaving the rest of the drive unallocated and empty. After XP is
setup, she can create the partitions for her apps and data.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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Michael Stevens said:
driver said:
My wife has just installed WinXP Home on a new PC which had one raw
120gb hard drive and found it has set the 3 partitions she created as
H: (WinXP) I: (Apps) J: (Data), instead of the normal C:,D:,E:. Her
only other drive is a CD-RW/DVD combo which appears as D:.
3 removable drives have appeared,labelled E:,F:,G:.... but in fact she
has no removeable drives, these would seem to be the USB ports on the
motherboard!!

Any idea what might have gone wrong and how it might be fixed?

Could she use Partition Magic or a similar utility, since the XP Disk
Manager will not allow her to change the system drive letter?

Or is the best solution to start again, reinstall Win XP?

Thanks for any guidance
Click to expand...

Have her to redo the installation and this time delete all the current
partitions. When prompted, create the XP partition only [I recommend 10
gig], leaving the rest of the drive unallocated and empty. After XP is
setup, she can create the partitions for her apps and data.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Click to expand...

Thanks, Michael.
All went smoothly and we are back in business.
Appreciate your help.
Chris
 
driver said:
Michael Stevens said:
driver wrote:
Disk
Manager will not allow her to change the system drive letter?

Or is the best solution to start again, reinstall Win XP?

Thanks for any guidance
Click to expand...

Have her to redo the installation and this time delete all the
current
partitions. When prompted, create the XP partition only [I recommend
10
gig], leaving the rest of the drive unallocated and empty. After XP
is
setup, she can create the partitions for her apps and data.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser
address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
Click to expand...

Thanks, Michael.
All went smoothly and we are back in business.
Appreciate your help.
Chris
Click to expand...

Great, glad it worked for her.
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(e-mail address removed)
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