XP made my primary drive E!

[PhoPho]

Wtf? I reinstalled XP the other day, and repartitioned/reformated the master drive in the process. I have a slave drive attached as well that I just used to backup some stuff and didn't touch during the installation process. After installing, XP made the slave drive C, my cdrom D, and my master drive E! In addition, it won't let me change the E drive letter since it's the drive I installed XP to. Anybody ever seen this before? Only solution I can think of is unplug the slave drive and reinstall again...

 

[Amused]

Only solution I can think of is unplug the slave drive and reinstall again...

Yep. That is correct.

For future reference know that this also occurs with Zip drives, tape drives, USB/firewire drives and removable card readers.

When installing XP it is best to have only the root drive and CD drives connected.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

My windows drive is J... I don't see what's wrong with this...

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
My windows drive is J... I don't see what's wrong with this...

Yeah whats the problem with having an E drive? Mine doesn't seem to hurt anything...

 

[drsaari]

since i had to install raid drivers for my raptors it set them to h: and that is my windows drive. the drive letter doesnt mean anything, other than most people are used to c: being the boot drive.

 

[Atlantean]

hahaha I did the same thing the other day, but the drive I installed to was a slave drive so my main drive was d drive... I reformatted cause I like having c as my main drive, and I was watching tv anyways.

 

[PhoPho]

Not having C as my boot drive is like... sacrilegious! It would most likely drive me to insanity before I could reach a point where I'm comfortable with it.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

A:\ Floppy
C:\ - 80GB Program Storage
D:\ CD-RW
E:\ 10GB Operating System
F:\ ~
G:\ 110GB Games, Digital Pictures, everything else
H:\ ~
I:\ DVD -\+ RW

I don't see what the big deal is

 

[nippyjun]

Wouldn't it be possible to rename the drive letters?

 

[tart666]

Originally posted by: nippyjun
Wouldn't it be possible to rename the drive letters?

i've had this problem a few times, the one time i did try to fix it the same drive started showing up as both C: and E:... couldn't fix it completely, i would like to know this too.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: nippyjun
Wouldn't it be possible to rename the drive letters?

When I tried this on an XP install I did for a friend, I got an error stating that I couldn't change the drive letter for the system drive.

Why not? It's arbitrary... Windows is retarded...

 

[Sid59]

nothing is wrong with XP not on C ....

but ..

if one of your drives die that are before letter "X", then windows wont boot cause it's looking for that damn letter. It happened to me and i couldn't do crap to save the OS.

I ended up GHOST the partition and trying to lay it over drive C, but that didn't work cause the drive letters are fubared. So, i reinstalled but i recovered every important piece of important file because of the ghost image.

 

[Davegod]

Mines H: now, same problem :s
/makes mental note, When installing XP it is best to have only the root drive and CD drives connected.

Also, although I shifted "Installation Path" in Powertoys to D:, when installing any software it still points to "H:\Program Files\whatever\" unless I change it. I probably could use the right-mouse button move to shift Program Files folder over from H:\, but I have some stuff installed there (driver installs etc that I wanted to keep on the OS drive for ghosting) and dont want to fubar it.

 

[volrath]

Originally posted by: Davegod
Mines H: now, same problem :s
/makes mental note, When installing XP it is best to have only the root drive and CD drives connected.

Also, although I shifted "Installation Path" in Powertoys to D:, when installing any software it still points to "H:\Program Files\whatever\" unless I change it. I probably could use the right-mouse button move to shift Program Files folder over from H:\, but I have some stuff installed there (driver installs etc that I wanted to keep on the OS drive for ghosting) and dont want to fubar it.

Yeah, I have a program that creates files in C:\Program Files\...\ every time I launch it. It's really annoying.

(BTW C: Storage, D: DVD-RW, E: Win2k, F: DVD Storage, G: Virtual Drive. No problems. No floppy either. )

 

[DurocShark]

2k does this too. So my boot drive is G. Big deal.

I'll be adding 2 more drives soon and considering calling them O and D.

 

[CU]

I don't remeber how, but there is a way to fix it by using regedit. I found the answer by searching google. Sorry I don't remeber how though.

 

[zzzz]

Its not a big deal...until you try to install some programs which dont install if the system files are not on C.

 

[NokiaDude]

I had that happen to me. I deleted the partition and re-installed XP. Somehow it formatted it as "C:" again. ALOT of programs are stupid and install themselves only onto the C: drive. No other drive letter will work. Grrrrrrrr....

 

[piasabird]

I think if you go to system tools there is drive management there that lets you change drive letters. Helps if you set up your computer and leave it alone. I think if you remove all other drive cables except the main drive, and then boot it will change to C: by default.

 

[mrweirdo]

Drive letters being out of place I have found are commonly caused by drive misconfiguration ie incorect jumper settings. Also it seems to like to have drive letter issues if you install on a SATA drive sometimes this is expecialy common on those drives that arent true SATA and still have jumpers on them. I had a WD one like that and it factory default was set to something other then a master hench XP installed to E: or something like that. So I wound up finaly figuring out that there were jumpers on there and it was set incorectly then I had to format the drive and reinstall windows(only because it was a comp for someone that wouldnt understand why there hd wasnt C: ).

 

[viper6497]

lol That happened to me too when I had a secondary drive connected pissed me off.