UNKNOWN DEVICE

[tony]

I formated and re-installed XP Home and found that my
system partition has been assigned as drive F. I can't
change it back to C. I since noticed that if I attempt
to re-install XP finds a different device and states the
following: 'Unknown Device - there is no disk in this
device'.
Even when I disconnect the hard drive I get the same
error. I've even flashed the system bios, to no avail.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[Guest]

If you use pro,boot to xp cd,recovery,press enter for password,at cmd
screen typeiskPart In DiskPart delete xp partition,create,esc.,then type:
EXIT Reboot to xp cd,install xp.If home,boot to xp cd,install xp,delete OS
partition (xp),create,install,xp will reformat and reasign proper letter.

 

[Tony]

I took the below step but it did not help. I can access
the real partition and manipulate it however I like. The
problem is the system thinks there is a disk that does
not exist and cannot be accessed. The exact message on
the screen is:

Unknown Disk
(There is no disk in this drive.)
38163 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on BUS 0 on atapi (MBR)

C: Partition 1 (local drive) [NTFS] 38154 MB (37150 MB
free)
Unpartitioned space 8 MB

XP consequently assigns drive letter C: to the
unavailable 'removeable device'.

-----Original Message-----
If you use pro,boot to xp cd,recovery,press enter for password,at cmd
screen typeiskPart In DiskPart delete xp

partition,create,esc.,then type: