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31st Aug 2008, 13:51
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| I have a Seagate Baracuda HD in SATA 1 port of a KN9 SLI motherboard running Windows XP. There are no other drives in the system. Windows boots up, but when I go to My Computer, the only drive that shows up is E:. There is no C: drive. When I try to install a new program, it will not install on C:, because it cannot find the drive. Some programs run OK, but others don't because they look for things on C:. I have tried to change the drive letter in the registry, and then Windows won't boot. If I re-install Windows, it again only shows drive E:. Anybody know how I can get this machine to show the boot drive as C:? Thanks, Marsh57 |
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31st Aug 2008, 13:55
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| Change the drive letter in disk manager.
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To start Disk Management: 1.Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group. 2.Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK. 3.In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. My System: Hybr!d
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31st Aug 2008, 14:22
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| Dave, I can't change the drive letter in Disk Manager because it sees the drive as the boot drive. Changing the drive letter in the registry causes Windows to not boot up. Marsh57 |
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31st Aug 2008, 15:10
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| See if this helps, but beware there is a risk.
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My System: Home Build
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31st Aug 2008, 17:14
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| Yes, that helps & I finally got it fixed. In case it might help someone in the future, here's what I did: 1. Went in the registry and changed drive C: to F:. Then changed E: to C: and changed f: (the old C:) to E:. 2. When I tried to reboot, it wouldn't go into windows. 3. Re-installed Windopws XP. After reinstallation, the drive is still shown as E: 4. Put in a USB flash drive and the flash drive came up as C:. 5. Went into drive manager and changed C: to F:. 6 Checked the registry, and there was no C: drive shown. I changed E: to C:. 7. On reboot it wouldn't go into windows. 8. Reinstalled Windows, and this time the boot drive was shown as C: and there is no E: drive - FINALLY! Strange beasts these computers be. Thanks for all the help Guys. Marsh57 |
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#6
1st Sep 2008, 01:43
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| You can always rely on good old M$ to make a simple job difficult  |
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