Windows now boots but Drive has TWO letters!

[npharrison]

Further to my post just below about hal.dll being corrupted because of a
power outage, I disconnected my c: drive, which was my slave drive, and went
through the whole recovery procedure on my f: drive. Recovery console failed
to provide the solution, so I went and did a Windows Repair.

That worked.

However, there is an unexpected side effect. When the machine starts up, as
I only have one drive connected, the master drive, the start up screen tells
me it is drive c:

When windows loads and I look in My Computer directory, I have my drive F:
back.

I haven't connected back my old drive C: yet. So how do I reconcile the name
of the drive with both the start up and windows?

 

[Clark]

Further to my post just below about hal.dll being corrupted because
of a power outage, I disconnected my c: drive, which was my slave
drive, and went through the whole recovery procedure on my f: drive.
Recovery console failed to provide the solution, so I went and did a
Windows Repair.

That worked.

However, there is an unexpected side effect. When the machine starts
up, as I only have one drive connected, the master drive, the start
up screen tells me it is drive c:

When windows loads and I look in My Computer directory, I have my
drive F: back.

I haven't connected back my old drive C: yet. So how do I reconcile
the name of the drive with both the start up and windows?

does this thing have an old recovery partition??
try this, start, run, compmgmt.msc /s , that gets you into computer
management, goto disk management and tell me what you see there
you should see disk0 and any partitions, then the CD-ROM, dvd,etc,


Clark...

 

[npharrison]

Tx for replying, Clark.

If you check out
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/npharrison/Drive/drive1.jpg then you
can see what it's reporting. For the record, when I took the OEM disk out of
the d: drive, windows wouldn't boot, so I put it back in and everything
loaded. Think I've got to change the priorities in the bios again, to put
this drive as 1st priority, then see what happens. But i've been without
access to my pc for over 24hours so I've had withdrawal symptoms.