Wrong boot drive designation

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I just installed XP Pro and got the suprise of my life. My boot drive is I,
not C as it should be. How did this happen, how can it be fixed?
 
Jerry Z said:
I just installed XP Pro and got the suprise of my life. My boot drive is I,
not C as it should be. How did this happen, how can it be fixed?
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The only way to fix this is to re-install WinXP. It often happens
when people leave USB mass storage devices plugged in during
the installation process.
 
Pegasus said:
The only way to fix this is to re-install WinXP. It often happens
when people leave USB mass storage devices plugged in during
the installation process.
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And/or mutiple optical drives.

Steve N.
 
Steve N. said:
And/or mutiple optical drives.
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My machine is like that now. It has a SCSI drive so my boot disk is "F:" I
guess the CD and CD-RW jumped ahead of the so-called "C:" drive. No big
deal, really. As I recall, you can rename the boot disk.
 
Herb Stein said:
My machine is like that now. It has a SCSI drive so my boot disk is "F:" I
guess the CD and CD-RW jumped ahead of the so-called "C:" drive. No big
deal, really. As I recall, you can rename the boot disk.
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If with "rename the boot disk" you mean "give it a different drive
letter" then the answer is no, you can't, Windows won't let you.
There are, of course, ways around this but you would end up with
a crippled system.
 
Thanks to all who responded. I should have removed my onboard card reader
before installing my new hard drive and XP. I was hoping there was a way I
wouldn't have to re-install. Pipe dream of course. Thanks again!
 
Jerry said:
Thanks to all who responded. I should have removed my onboard card reader
before installing my new hard drive and XP. I was hoping there was a way I
wouldn't have to re-install. Pipe dream of course. Thanks again!
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You can disable USB in you BIOS, install XP and then
enable it again. It saves you opening you computer...
 
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