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re: Changeing Drive Letter in XP
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 at 2:11 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Robert Walker
(1 messages posted)
Hi mate,
I have similar problems to you which I finally worked out a good solution to!! I
boot off U320 SCSI drives and Windows gets mixed up with some SATA drives I have
on motherboard headers. They end up being assigned as the system drives. I think
Windows likes to use IDE drives for booting off or PCI slots with a low(er) number.
My SCSI drives are assigned 'virtual' slot 9 as they are off motherboard headers
which is quite high :-)...
The tricks I have found which would be much easier for everyone with Windows drive
letter/system disk problems are:
1) Disable the devices which are causing offence in the BIOS while booting (e.g.
secondary bootable disk controller).
2) Make sure that IDE CD/DVD drives are plugged into the SECONDARY IDE channel as
MASTER (1 optical drive) or MASTER+SLAVE (2 optical drives) not the PRIMARY IDE channel.
USB is good for booting.
3) An IDE boot disk will work best if it is connected to the PRIMARY IDE channel
as a MASTER.
4) Do not use the PRIMARY IDE channel at all if you want to boot off a SATA or SCSI
drive.
You then re-enable the any additional HD Host Controllers when Windows is installed
with simple BIOS switches... NB you will only get conflicts with HD Controllers which
are bootable (and hence should have a boot BIOS to turn them off!!) Bobs your Uncle
:-)
Hope that helps,
Bob Wya
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