After install boot drive letter comes up F:

Did you delete and recreate the partition during the installation? If
yes then after you recreated the partition you should have rebooted
before installing on the newly recreated partition.

John

Tim T wrote:

> I just reinstalled Windows XP which I have to do periodically when it gets
> real sloooow. I am unable to get my boot drive letter to C:. After
> reinstalling and booting it came up F: and my slave drive came up some other
> letter which I forget. The problem is Computer Manager/Disk Management won't
> allow me to change my boot drive. My boot drive, slave, cd and dvd have
> always been C,D,E,F respectively. How can I change the boot drive letterback
> to C? And if I have to do a reinstall how do I insure it won't do the same
> again? I haven't insalled any software to F yet in case I do have to
> reinstall. All help appreciated.
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"John John (MVP)" wrote in message

> Did you delete and recreate the partition during the installation? If yes
> then after you recreated the partition you should have rebooted before
> installing on the newly recreated partition.
>
> John

Not likely
I always delete then re-create &
have never had the wrong drive letter assigned.

It looks like the drive is on the wrong channel
such as secondary slave...to have been assigned the F: designation

>
> Tim T wrote:
>
>> I just reinstalled Windows XP which I have to do periodically when it
>> gets real sloooow. I am unable to get my boot drive letter to C:. After
>> reinstalling and booting it came up F: and my slave drive came up some
>> other letter which I forget. The problem is Computer Manager/Disk
>> Management won't allow me to change my boot drive. My boot drive, slave,
>> cd and dvd have always been C,D,E,F respectively. How can I change the
>> boot drive letterback to C? And if I have to do a reinstall how do I
>> insure it won't do the same again? I haven't insalled any software to F
>> yet in case I do have to reinstall. All help appreciated.
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Yes I did repartition the drive. What I will do now is disconnect the other
drives and reinstall to insure that it does not happen again. Thanks

"John John (MVP)" wrote:

> Did you delete and recreate the partition during the installation? If
> yes then after you recreated the partition you should have rebooted
> before installing on the newly recreated partition.
>
> John
>
> Tim T wrote:
>
> > I just reinstalled Windows XP which I have to do periodically when it gets
> > real sloooow. I am unable to get my boot drive letter to C:. After
> > reinstalling and booting it came up F: and my slave drive came up some other
> > letter which I forget. The problem is Computer Manager/Disk Management won't
> > allow me to change my boot drive. My boot drive, slave, cd and dvd have
> > always been C,D,E,F respectively. How can I change the boot drive letterback
> > to C? And if I have to do a reinstall how do I insure it won't do the same
> > again? I haven't insalled any software to F yet in case I do have to
> > reinstall. All help appreciated.
>
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philo wrote:

> "John John (MVP)" wrote in message

>
>>Did you delete and recreate the partition during the installation? If yes
>>then after you recreated the partition you should have rebooted before
>>installing on the newly recreated partition.
>>
>>John
>
>
> Not likely
> I always delete then re-create &
> have never had the wrong drive letter assigned.
>
> It looks like the drive is on the wrong channel
> such as secondary slave...to have been assigned the F: designation

That is possible but being that the OP stated that he has successfully
reinstalled correctly many times in the past I would say that it is
unlikely that the Master/Slave relationship and position of the disks
would have changed since the last installation, unless the OP went
inside the case and changed things around. As for the deleted/recreated
partition and drive letter assignment during installation this is
something that is known to happen at times, it happens more often on
multi partition disks. It doesn't always happen but it is not all that
unusual. The problem could also be a result of changes the boot order
in the BIOS, which may change the way the devices are presented to
NTDETECT.COM which in turn may affect the drive letter assignments.

John
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Correct! I did change the boot order to run a program that puts all zeros on
the drive during formatting from my floppy and I my cd the 2nd device to
install Windows. I guess I should have changed the back. Didn't think it made
a difference. Thanks

"John John (MVP)" wrote:

> philo wrote:
>
> > "John John (MVP)" wrote in message
>
> >
> >>Did you delete and recreate the partition during the installation? If yes
> >>then after you recreated the partition you should have rebooted before
> >>installing on the newly recreated partition.
> >>
> >>John
> >
> >
> > Not likely
> > I always delete then re-create &
> > have never had the wrong drive letter assigned.
> >
> > It looks like the drive is on the wrong channel
> > such as secondary slave...to have been assigned the F: designation
>
> That is possible but being that the OP stated that he has successfully
> reinstalled correctly many times in the past I would say that it is
> unlikely that the Master/Slave relationship and position of the disks
> would have changed since the last installation, unless the OP went
> inside the case and changed things around. As for the deleted/recreated
> partition and drive letter assignment during installation this is
> something that is known to happen at times, it happens more often on
> multi partition disks. It doesn't always happen but it is not all that
> unusual. The problem could also be a result of changes the boot order
> in the BIOS, which may change the way the devices are presented to
> NTDETECT.COM which in turn may affect the drive letter assignments.
>
> John
>
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philo wrote:

> "John John (MVP)" wrote in message

>
>>Did you delete and recreate the partition during the installation? If yes
>>then after you recreated the partition you should have rebooted before
>>installing on the newly recreated partition.
>>
>>John
>
>
> Not likely
> I always delete then re-create &
> have never had the wrong drive letter assigned.

Setup Changes Drive Letters After a Partition Is Deleted and Reinstalled
[URL="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/225025"]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/225025[/URL]

John
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"John John (MVP)" wrote in message

> philo wrote:
>
>> "John John (MVP)" wrote in message
>
>>
>>>Did you delete and recreate the partition during the installation? If
>>>yes then after you recreated the partition you should have rebooted
>>>before installing on the newly recreated partition.
>>>
>>>John
>>
>>
>> Not likely
>> I always delete then re-create &
>> have never had the wrong drive letter assigned.
>>
>> It looks like the drive is on the wrong channel
>> such as secondary slave...to have been assigned the F: designation
>
> That is possible but being that the OP stated that he has successfully
> reinstalled correctly many times in the past I would say that it is
> unlikely that the Master/Slave relationship and position of the disks
> would have changed since the last installation, unless the OP went inside
> the case and changed things around. As for the deleted/recreated
> partition and drive letter assignment during installation this is
> something that is known to happen at times, it happens more often on multi
> partition disks. It doesn't always happen but it is not all that unusual.
> The problem could also be a result of changes the boot order in the BIOS,
> which may change the way the devices are presented to NTDETECT.COM which
> in turn may affect the drive letter assignments.
>
> John

Yep, very possibly a boot-order change in the BIOS
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You're welcome.

John

Tim T wrote:

> Correct! I did change the boot order to run a program that puts all zeros on
> the drive during formatting from my floppy and I my cd the 2nd device to
> install Windows. I guess I should have changed the back. Didn't think it made
> a difference. Thanks
>
> "John John (MVP)" wrote:
>
>
>>philo wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"John John (MVP)" wrote in message
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Did you delete and recreate the partition during the installation? If yes
>>>>then after you recreated the partition you should have rebooted before
>>>>installing on the newly recreated partition.
>>>>
>>>>John
>>>
>>>
>>>Not likely
>>>I always delete then re-create &
>>>have never had the wrong drive letter assigned.
>>>
>>>It looks like the drive is on the wrong channel
>>>such as secondary slave...to have been assigned the F: designation
>>
>>That is possible but being that the OP stated that he has successfully
>>reinstalled correctly many times in the past I would say that it is
>>unlikely that the Master/Slave relationship and position of the disks
>>would have changed since the last installation, unless the OP went
>>inside the case and changed things around. As for the deleted/recreated
>>partition and drive letter assignment during installation this is
>>something that is known to happen at times, it happens more often on
>>multi partition disks. It doesn't always happen but it is not all that
>>unusual. The problem could also be a result of changes the boot order
>>in the BIOS, which may change the way the devices are presented to
>>NTDETECT.COM which in turn may affect the drive letter assignments.
>>
>>John
>>
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