master hd is being set as F:??

Best solution is to remove the second hard drive, have the drive you are
installing XP onto as Primary Master, have your CD as Primary slave, install
XP,
once up and running, shut down, and install your other drive as Secondary
Slave.

Hope this helps.!

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"FayeC" wrote in message
.. .
I posted a while ago about some computer problems. I ended up taking the
computer to be checked at the store where I got it upgraded 5 months ago
and
they diagnosed a bad master hd.
I brought the computer home and right now I am trying to install Windows
XP
on an old 4.5 GB hd I had sitting here.
The hd is correctly jumped as master and I have a bigger hd as slave (I
have
all my backup files, work, documents saved and organized in the bigger
hd).
I used FDISK and deleted the fat32 partition from the old 4GB hd and
allowed
windows to detect the hd as master and to format it in NTFS.
The problem is that windows is installing and setting the master hd as F:
and not as C:.
This happened to me before and I just can't remember how I solved the
problem. I think I removed the slave hd and reformatted and installed
Windows again but for the life of me I can't be sure.
What can cause Windows to see the master as F: and how to solve this
problem? I know you can't change the letter of the system hd in windows.
Any
other options?

Any help is appreciated,

FayeC

In article ,
says... while attaching C4 explosives to
computer and foaming at the mouth!

I posted a while ago about some computer problems. I ended up taking the
computer to be checked at the store where I got it upgraded 5 months ago and
they diagnosed a bad master hd.
I brought the computer home and right now I am trying to install Windows XP
on an old 4.5 GB hd I had sitting here.
The hd is correctly jumped as master and I have a bigger hd as slave (I have
all my backup files, work, documents saved and organized in the bigger hd).
I used FDISK and deleted the fat32 partition from the old 4GB hd and allowed
windows to detect the hd as master and to format it in NTFS.
The problem is that windows is installing and setting the master hd as F:
and not as C:.
This happened to me before and I just can't remember how I solved the
problem. I think I removed the slave hd and reformatted and installed
Windows again but for the life of me I can't be sure.
What can cause Windows to see the master as F: and how to solve this
problem? I know you can't change the letter of the system hd in windows. Any
other options?

Any help is appreciated,

FayeC




It's a little confusing how you are describing it. You said you let
"Windows" detect the drive & format?? Do you have an existing OS running
already? Was it already on the larger drive when you switched it
around?? If that's true, than hence why it makes the drive F.....Little
more details maybe?

To be honest with you a 4gig drive to run XP is actually small in my
opinion. A clean install of XP with updates can take up almost 2-3 gig
just clean. Few progs on there & that restore crap running in the
background you'll have no more room on the drive in no time.

Snoop, will a secondary slave run without a secondary master?


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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:19:38 -0400, FayeC pondered exceedingly, then took quill
in hand and carefully composed...

| I posted a while ago about some computer problems. I ended up taking the
| computer to be checked at the store where I got it upgraded 5 months ago and
| they diagnosed a bad master hd.
| I brought the computer home and right now I am trying to install Windows XP
| on an old 4.5 GB hd I had sitting here.
| The hd is correctly jumped as master and I have a bigger hd as slave (I have
| all my backup files, work, documents saved and organized in the bigger hd).
| I used FDISK and deleted the fat32 partition from the old 4GB hd and allowed
| windows to detect the hd as master and to format it in NTFS.
| The problem is that windows is installing and setting the master hd as F:
| and not as C:.
| This happened to me before and I just can't remember how I solved the
| problem. I think I removed the slave hd and reformatted and installed
| Windows again but for the life of me I can't be sure.
| What can cause Windows to see the master as F: and how to solve this
| problem? I know you can't change the letter of the system hd in windows. Any
| other options?

First, XP should operate with no problems from a system drive it designated as
F. That could be more than a little confusing to some older programs, though,
that expect Windows to be on C. It would even be a bit confusing to me, but
then I'm somewhat of an older program myself! ;-)

Do you have a ZIP drive or any other unusual drive installed? If so, disconnect
it before you start installing XP. Re-install the drive AFTER XP has been
installed.

BTW, I agree with ByTor. A 4 or 4.5GB hard drive definitely isn't big enough
for a permanent installation of XP — that is if you plan on having much of
anything else installed. You'll be pinched for pagefile space and for
sufficient "elbow room" for defragging, not to mention reserved space for the
Master File Table if you formatted NTFS.

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Assignment of drive letters is controlled by the order in which the drives
are seen in the hardware.
Check the BIOS too.

Does not matter if OS is on F, but then some other hard drive is getting
assigned as C.

If you boot from a Win 98 Startup disk, what drive letters do you see?

If you don't have a Win 98 startup disk, get one from www.bootdisk.com.

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"FayeC" wrote in message
.. .
I posted a while ago about some computer problems. I ended up taking the
computer to be checked at the store where I got it upgraded 5 months ago
and
they diagnosed a bad master hd.
I brought the computer home and right now I am trying to install Windows
XP
on an old 4.5 GB hd I had sitting here.
The hd is correctly jumped as master and I have a bigger hd as slave (I
have
all my backup files, work, documents saved and organized in the bigger
hd).
I used FDISK and deleted the fat32 partition from the old 4GB hd and
allowed
windows to detect the hd as master and to format it in NTFS.
The problem is that windows is installing and setting the master hd as F:
and not as C:.
This happened to me before and I just can't remember how I solved the
problem. I think I removed the slave hd and reformatted and installed
Windows again but for the life of me I can't be sure.
What can cause Windows to see the master as F: and how to solve this
problem? I know you can't change the letter of the system hd in windows.
Any
other options?

Any help is appreciated,

FayeC

You don't mention what program you used to create the partition, but
it sounds like it's the XP installation software. When it creates the
partition, it immediately assigns a drive letter to the partition, so
if you look closely at the screen, you would see that it is not C:. If
you proceed with the installation by formatting the partition, XP will
be installed to that drive letter. What you need to do is abort the
installation by hitting F3 F3, and restart the installation. This will
cause the new partition to be assigned C:.

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:19:38 -0400, "FayeC"
wrote:

I posted a while ago about some computer problems. I ended up taking the
computer to be checked at the store where I got it upgraded 5 months ago and
they diagnosed a bad master hd.
I brought the computer home and right now I am trying to install Windows XP
on an old 4.5 GB hd I had sitting here.
The hd is correctly jumped as master and I have a bigger hd as slave (I have
all my backup files, work, documents saved and organized in the bigger hd).
I used FDISK and deleted the fat32 partition from the old 4GB hd and allowed
windows to detect the hd as master and to format it in NTFS.
The problem is that windows is installing and setting the master hd as F:
and not as C:.
This happened to me before and I just can't remember how I solved the
problem. I think I removed the slave hd and reformatted and installed
Windows again but for the life of me I can't be sure.
What can cause Windows to see the master as F: and how to solve this
problem? I know you can't change the letter of the system hd in windows. Any
other options?

Any help is appreciated,

FayeC

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 12:19:38 -0400, "FayeC"
wrote:

I posted a while ago about some computer problems. I ended up taking the
computer to be checked at the store where I got it upgraded 5 months ago and
they diagnosed a bad master hd.
I brought the computer home and right now I am trying to install Windows XP
on an old 4.5 GB hd I had sitting here.
The hd is correctly jumped as master and I have a bigger hd as slave (I have
all my backup files, work, documents saved and organized in the bigger hd).
I used FDISK and deleted the fat32 partition from the old 4GB hd and allowed
windows to detect the hd as master and to format it in NTFS.
The problem is that windows is installing and setting the master hd as F:
and not as C:.
This happened to me before and I just can't remember how I solved the
problem. I think I removed the slave hd and reformatted and installed
Windows again but for the life of me I can't be sure.
What can cause Windows to see the master as F: and how to solve this

The reason this happens is when the XP installation program detects an
existing storage device(s) excluding floppies and CD/DVDs, it
immediately assigns drive letters to it(them) as well as any CD/DVD
drive. So when you create a new partition, it gets the next unused
drive letter.

problem? I know you can't change the letter of the system hd in windows. Any
other options?

Any help is appreciated,

FayeC

"FayeC" wrote in message
.. .
I posted a while ago about some computer problems. I ended up taking the
computer to be checked at the store where I got it upgraded 5 months ago
and
they diagnosed a bad master hd.
I brought the computer home and right now I am trying to install Windows
XP
on an old 4.5 GB hd I had sitting here.
The hd is correctly jumped as master and I have a bigger hd as slave (I
have
all my backup files, work, documents saved and organized in the bigger
hd).
I used FDISK and deleted the fat32 partition from the old 4GB hd and
allowed
windows to detect the hd as master and to format it in NTFS.
The problem is that windows is installing and setting the master hd as F:
and not as C:.
This happened to me before and I just can't remember how I solved the
problem. I think I removed the slave hd and reformatted and installed
Windows again but for the life of me I can't be sure.
What can cause Windows to see the master as F: and how to solve this
problem? I know you can't change the letter of the system hd in windows.
Any
other options?

Any help is appreciated,

FayeC

Another option is to ignore the hard drive letters during install, and after
XP
is installed use the "disk mangement utility", then "change drive letter and
paths"
option in XP and rename the drive letters.

control panel/ administrative tools/ computer mangement/ disk mangement

Craig

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...
"Craig" wrote:



FayeC

Another option is to ignore the hard drive letters during install, and
after
XP
is installed use the "disk mangement utility", then "change drive letter
and
paths"
option in XP and rename the drive letters.

control panel/ administrative tools/ computer mangement/ disk mangement

Craig


Not a good idea especially on the C drive, the programs on it will not
have
there paths updated and everything including XP will stop working.

Andy

This drove me crazy the first couple of WinXP installs I did as well.
Now I just fdisk my drive / drives (actually I use Norton Ghost with an
image of an empty drive, takes 2 seconds to fdisk/format a 120 gig drive
and create Fat32 partitions.
I then tell XP during the install which partition to install itself to, and
have it do a "quick" format to NTFS.
Walla no more weird assed drive letter assignments

XP won't let you change the boot drive letter anyway. Try it?


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...
"Craig" wrote:



FayeC

Another option is to ignore the hard drive letters during install, and
after
XP
is installed use the "disk mangement utility", then "change drive
letter
and
paths"
option in XP and rename the drive letters.

control panel/ administrative tools/ computer mangement/ disk mangement

Craig


Not a good idea especially on the C drive, the programs on it will not
have
there paths updated and everything including XP will stop working.

Andy

This drove me crazy the first couple of WinXP installs I did as well.
Now I just fdisk my drive / drives (actually I use Norton Ghost with an
image of an empty drive, takes 2 seconds to fdisk/format a 120 gig drive
and create Fat32 partitions.
I then tell XP during the install which partition to install itself to,
and
have it do a "quick" format to NTFS.
Walla no more weird assed drive letter assignments