Reply With QuoteI put my boot drive on a diff. letter p: or q: I think, I have not had any problems with it not being C:
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08-08-2007, 08:05 PM #1Thats Dr. Keke to you! ELITE MEMBER
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Strange computer problem
I bought a new 500g harddrive. No jumper is requires for SATA, so I left it at default. I formated the drive using the XP pro CD, and installed the OS. It took 3 hours because of the size of the drive. Once everything booted, I tried to install my drivers, and the path was unrecognized. I was confused as to why so I looked at the volume in windows explorer. It was assigned the drive letter f.
I figured no problem, so I went into disk management in the computer management console. Well it won't let me change the drive letter to c, because it is the boot volume. I can't change the path that the drivers install under, plus I don't want to have to deal with weird problems later caused by the os not being installed on c.
I put in the XP CD again to see if I could do something from there, but it is saying the OS is on C, but when I boot windows again, it is saying F. I googled the problem, but found nothing for my situation. What the fuck is going on here. I have installed XP a 100 times, and this has never happened. I really don't won't to have to wait another 3 hours to install.
I hope somebody here as seen this, and can point me in the right direction to figure this out a little faster.“I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.”
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08-08-2007, 08:27 PM #2Bohemian Extraordinaire ELITE MEMBER
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08-08-2007, 08:44 PM #3Thats Dr. Keke to you! ELITE MEMBER
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I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my computers. I'll figure out eventually how to switch that motherfucker back to c, or I'll reformat, and hopefully it will fix the glitch.
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08-08-2007, 09:02 PM #4Lift or Die ELITE MEMBER
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So then you are running one drive (you removed the old one) with jumper set to master and the OS wants to label it as f?
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08-08-2007, 09:05 PM #5Thats Dr. Keke to you! ELITE MEMBER
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Yep! Originally Posted by BoneCrusher
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08-08-2007, 09:12 PM #6Voodoo Doll ELITE MEMBER
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i read that you might be safer from viruses n trojans using a different drive letter for your os than c because they usually target c drive. i had mine on another for a long time with no issues.
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Left click the start button
Click "help and support"
Type in "drive letter"
Click "assign a drive letter...."
see where that takes you
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08-09-2007, 12:10 AM #8Lift or Die ELITE MEMBER
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start>control panel>classic view> admin tools>computer management>storage>disk management>rt click f drive> select change drive letter> rename drive as C> will prolly not work but that's how you rename other drives the easy way.
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08-09-2007, 12:23 AM #9SHRUG LIKE YOU MEAN IT MODERATOR
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Boot up in safe mode and try to reassign drive letter?
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That's why I assigned mine a different letter, in fact all of my hard drives are on weird letters, then I mapped a network drive to C: on my sacrifice machine that I DL torrents on and made that C: on my main machine, I always hoped it would throw anyone off but a smart person would just look for multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS... Originally Posted by Little Wing
Anyway KelJ, I found this, it may work if not then you'll have to reinstall anyway because on another Micrsoft page it said you can not reassign the boot drive letter...
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08-09-2007, 02:44 PM #11Thats Dr. Keke to you! ELITE MEMBER
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Yo ucan't do it from within windows, even safemode. Originally Posted by Gazhole
Thats what I tried to do. You can't change the drive letter of your boot volume from within windows. Originally Posted by BoneCrusher
But, I figured out how to do it using a tool I found on google.“I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.”
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08-09-2007, 02:52 PM #12Lift or Die ELITE MEMBER
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So post that tool foo ... share the wealth. Originally Posted by KelJu
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08-09-2007, 05:09 PM #13I'm CEO, Bitch! ADMINISTRATOR
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holy shit, why not just right click on My Computer and click Manage? Originally Posted by BoneCrusher
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