Local Drive Letter Mix Up

[TheCardMan]

I just installed XP-PRO on a machine and I had a IDE ZIP Drive in it. After installation I see that my Local Hard Drive is "E" and the removable drive (Zip) is "C". Is there any way to change this to make the Drive letter C my local hard drive without going through the install again without the Zip drive plugged in?

[Ferrit]

Only way I know of to change the designation of the c drive is a reload
I would remove the zip drive till after you had xppro loaded


Has happened to me on a number of occasions.
XP doesnt get much dumber

[TheCardMan]

Thanks, thats what i figured, I'm reloading now.

[Outcoded]

Used to get this a lot with 2k, it's down to the order that the drives are plugged in. The problem is, it looks at onboard IDE's before external controllers (which includes UIDE ports on boards that have normal IDE parts too).

Easiest way is to turn the onboard IDE ports off in the BIOS, which is fine so long as you don't turn the drive your install media is in off.

[mcobbs]

No need to re-install...

Right click on "my computer" go to "manage" and go to "disk management"
You can very easily change the drive letters here. You will have to change
the drive letter for the zip first, and then change the hard drive to c.
You do this by right clicking on the drive and selecting "change drive letter"

On existing installs you may have conflicts if certain programs are looking for
files on a certain drive, but since you have a fresh install, go for it.

Mark

[Ferrit]

No need to re-install...

Right click on "my computer" go to "manage" and go to "disk management"
You can very easily change the drive letters here. You will have to change
the drive letter for the zip first, and then change the hard drive to c.
You do this by right clicking on the drive and selecting "change drive letter"

On existing installs you may have conflicts if certain programs are looking for
files on a certain drive, but since you have a fresh install, go for it.

Mark

I would pretty much ignore this post completely unless you want a nightmare

[kato2274]

I would pretty much ignore this post completely unless you want a nightmare

ditto.

won't work on the system drive like this anyway. there IS a way that is supposed to work from MS that includes a bunch of reg tweaking, but really it's not worth it.

disconnect the zip drive and reload.