Drive Letter Assignment

pcook911 · 02-25-2007, 02:03 AM

To all,

First off I had a computer emergency a couple of weeks ago. After spending a week figuring out and trying to repair it I went out and bought a new HD installed it and was able to get WinXP running and retrieve the data off of the old RAID 0 array.

In the process the new hard drive was assigned letter E:. I want to have this drive named C:, the Raid 1 array named D: and my optical drive named E:.

I assume that this will involve a WinXP reinstall, which is fine, because if it possible to change the drive E: to C: I would assume that I would have to uninstall and reinstall any software I have anyway.

Here are the specs of the system

ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe mobo
250GB Maxtor IDE HD - only drive on the primary IDE channel
74GB RAID 1 array, 2 SATA WD 74GB drives controlled by onboard Promise RAID controller
Plextor PX-760A Optical drive - only drive on secondary IDE channel
2GB Mushkin RAM

TIA,

Paul

**Deleted090308** · 02-25-2007, 02:13 AM

Hi!
In BIOS - make sure your new HD is the first (of the HD's) in the boot order. That should fix it.

Nicholas

02-25-2007, 02:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
pcook911 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1 OS: WinXP	Drive Letter Assignment To all, First off I had a computer emergency a couple of weeks ago. After spending a week figuring out and trying to repair it I went out and bought a new HD installed it and was able to get WinXP running and retrieve the data off of the old RAID 0 array. In the process the new hard drive was assigned letter E:. I want to have this drive named C:, the Raid 1 array named D: and my optical drive named E:. I assume that this will involve a WinXP reinstall, which is fine, because if it possible to change the drive E: to C: I would assume that I would have to uninstall and reinstall any software I have anyway. Here are the specs of the system ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe mobo 250GB Maxtor IDE HD - only drive on the primary IDE channel 74GB RAID 1 array, 2 SATA WD 74GB drives controlled by onboard Promise RAID controller Plextor PX-760A Optical drive - only drive on secondary IDE channel 2GB Mushkin RAM TIA, Paul

02-25-2007, 02:13 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Hi! In BIOS - make sure your new HD is the first (of the HD's) in the boot order. That should fix it. Nicholas