re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:06 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by ChasUGC
(137 messages posted)
Personally I choose not to use Hard Drive controllers. They don't make sense unless
you need large hard drive support. These are drives above 160GB. I took mine out
of my system because it caused nothing but problems. I have a gateway. I took it
out and turned it off in my bios. It didn't make sense because I can use two hard
drives and two CD rom drives without it. This is the most that you can have in a
computer unless you use raid anyway. The controller just caused problems for me.
And, the advantage of not having it was that I have a extra PCI port now. I had all
the problems that you are talking about until I took it out. Try taking it out and
see. Your life will be much easier. Once you take it out and connect everything to
your board, your bios may still look for it. Just turn it off in your bios and see
how much easier it is to configure everything. You will also free a IRQ interrupt
and DMA channel too.
Good Luck.
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 6:15 am, Bob wrote:
>I have a question about Designate
>Your Own Drive Letters:
>
>Hi,
>
>I have installed win-xp on one of my 2 HDD connected on primary IDE contoller &
it
>assigned drive letter E:. Now when i remove the second HDD & boot with single HDD
>, the drive letter still remains E:, because of this i can not install some application
>progs. that require the drive letter C:.
>
>If, i follow the proceduer that listed in this forum or on
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307844 , it shows me an error, "You can not modify
>the drive letter on system volume or boot volume". What should i do now?
>
>Your help will greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanx,
>Bob
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