XP installed on new SATA/showing as drive E ...?

[sunny3]

Hi...I've just xp on my new sata drive but when windows boots up it is showing it as drive E:...?

I have 2 hard drives set up as follows:-

primary ide master= (storage drive) ide ata100

Sata 0 = sata 0 (windows drive)

First boot devie in bios is set to the sata drive

How can I get the sata windows drive to be recognised as drive C....?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[BionicJohn]

> > How can I get the sata windows drive to be recognised as drive C....?

Make it the active partition?

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[sunny3]

It has 2 partitions...if I do that will the other half of the partition become d:...?

Cheers.

 

[rvnguy]

sunny3

I copied this from another thread ad I had a similar problem although not with SATA. Credit is due to bcastner!!


bcastner (IS/IT--Manageme)
22 May 05 20:20
This will change the drive letter. It is doubtful your XP installation will work afterwards, however:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...b/articles/Q223/1/88.ASP&NoWebContent=1#2

rvnguy

 

[sunny3]

Thanks for that info...but I don't wanna risk it not working or fiddling with permission/registy.

I'm sure there's an easier way...I don't mind re-installing if I have to...something else I read implied that all ide drives apart from cd should be disconnected,that way it recognises sata as C...?
Is this true...?

Will give the active setting a go.

Cheers.

 

[rvnguy]

sunny3,

Yes, you can disconnect all other drives, just sata and cd connected, re-install and very early xp will ask if you want support for other drives? press F? and it will recog the sata and you can install it from there. Good Luck

rvnguy

 

[bcastner]

You will have to reinstall.
"rvnguy" provided the key: remove the IDE drives from the equation prior to the install. (The BIOS boot order does not matter in this instance).

Setup the SATA drives, (you will need the SATA drives on floppy and use F6 during setup).

You might explore a bit to see if your BIOS has greater depth of settings for SATA other than just boot options.

Finally, make sure that the only Active partition is on the first SATA drive.

After all is said and done, re-add the IDE drives. You might want to keep permissions issues and workarounds in mind when you do so for the IDE drives if NTFS:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

 

[sunny3]

Will remove the ide and try again...windows actually recognises the sata without the need for f6...?
I was pleasently suprised.

The Bios does have other settings which I have explored...ie on the sata option I can tell it to set as ide primary master/slave or secondary master/slave or sata 0 /sata 1.

And yes I did try it but then it did not boot at all just got a message Ntdlr missing....

I'm assuming I got this because I am was still using the ide primary master as storage drive(which I still want to)

This time I'll disconnect everything apart from cd and after the install I'll re-connect the IDE and hopefully the sata will stay as C...?

Cheers keep you posted late tonight...(work!)
Cheers.

 

[bcastner]

If it does not, and it should, you can then make an edit:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q223188

 

[MCesic]

sunny3
would just changing the letter in Disk Management do for you?

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[sunny3]

I disconneted ide and re-installed then reconnected ide and now all is ok....sata is c:

Thanks for all your help guys.

Lesson learned for everyone.

Cheers.