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Solved: Fresh XP installed on virgin HDD as the F drive

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I installed a brand spanking new HDD into a machine. Used the XP setup disk to format the HDD and ran thru the complete installation. It as too late before I noticed that the boot drive was designated as F instead of C. I thought it had to do with the way the IDE cables or the power plug are sequenced inside, but apparently you cannot change the drive letter for the boot drive. It is not too late to re do the install, but how can I designate HDD as C instead of F. I don't even know why it would do that.

Would there be any problems with keeping the boot drive as F instead of C? I am giving this PC to someone since I don't need it, but I have never had the boot drive other than C before.

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Jerold
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Hi,
I don't see why there would be any problems with F being the boot drive, other than causing confusion for the person receiving it.
My advice, label F as system or something.
Kind Regards
Anthony
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