re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Saturday, August 26, 2006 at 11:56 am
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Posted by harve
(1 messages posted)
I had a similar situation when I bought a pc online that had no operating system.
The hard drive was designated as I: ,after installing win xp ... very annoying.
After reading the warnings at MS support against changing the boot drive letter to
something different from when win xp was installed, I decided to delete the partition
and re-install win XP. It works.
Go into BIOS setup, change to boot from CD drive before hard drive, insert win XP
installation disk, save and exit. Press any key to boot from cd when prompted. Install
fresh copy of operating system not repair. Delete the partition the system is on
and a new partition is made. Format this partition, quick( no bad sectors check )
or regular format (checks for bad sectors ). All data files, applications, and drivers
will be deleted, so save the drivers to removable media.
>I have an XP Pro machine that a Dell technician assigned the drive letter F: to
the
>system/boot partition. This happened because of a ZIP drive that was assigned C:......etc..
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