re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Monday, January 26, 2004 at 11:30 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by JamesH (1 messages posted) Here's an easy way fellas.. if you have an extra HD, image your drive over to another drive, remove your zip and make your primary the only IDE device other then cdroms. format your drive and then image the drive back over to your hd.. plug in zip and all worked fine for me. Otherwise, nothing else will work On Thursday, December 18, 2003 at 9:54 am, LashiCD wrote: >I have had a similar problem with a 2000 system and the solution I found was to use >an old 98 boot disk and run "fdisk /mbr". From what I understand is this wipes out >the boot record then when on boot up the drives are reassigned. I do not konw it >this will work on XP but my guess is that it will. > > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (LashiCD: Thursday, December 18, 2003 at 9:54 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Chris: Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 10:09 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Dan: Thu, Aug 15, 2002, 6:41 am) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Danny: Thu, Aug 15, 2002, 7:05 am) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (TTre: Sat, Oct 19, 2002, 9:06 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Colin Watters: Thu, Aug 15, 2002, 9:41 am) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Larry: Thu, Aug 15, 2002, 7:12 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (chris: Thu, Aug 15, 2002, 11:18 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Tom: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 8:13 am) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (sacha: Tue, Nov 19, 2002, 3:15 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (sacha: Tue, Nov 19, 2002, 9:37 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (brian: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 7:46 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (K2shark: Mon, Apr 21, 2003, 11:01 am) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Pete: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 8:33 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Conrad Smith: Thu, Jun 2, 2005, 4:54 am) SOLUTION!!! Tested and confirmed! (See above) (Pete: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 8:36 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Mike: Fri, Feb 24, 2006, 7:24 am) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Reg: Sat, Feb 14, 2009, 3:11 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (LashiCD: Thu, Dec 18, 2003, 9:54 am) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (JamesH: Mon, Jan 26, 2004, 11:30 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Chris: Wed, Jan 5, 2005, 10:09 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (harve: Sat, Aug 26, 2006, 11:56 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum