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

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Jerold

Discussion Starter · Jan 5, 2007

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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Old Rich

· #3 · Jan 5, 2007

If you decided to reinstall, disconnect any removable drives ( Zip or Flash drive adaptors ) and/or any other hard drives for the installation

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Old Rich

· #5 · Jan 5, 2007

Jerold said:
Should I unplug zip IDE and power cable and try the install?

Yep . . that is the culprit . . for reasons known only to 'lil Billy Gates, when XP encounters a Zip drive it assigns C to that . . then moves down the line to assign the drive letter for the HDD . . irritating . . but once you know, it's easy to avoid

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