Disk order

[Terence]

I have just upgraded my computer and want to do a fresh install on winxp pro, originally I have 1 pata harddisk (primary master), dvdrom (secondary master) and cdrw (secondary slave), I have added an SATA harddisk (seagate 80G), winxp install runs smoothy
but when I boot it up after setup, winxp assigned drive F: to my SATA harddisk (which is the boot disk) and C: is assigned to my original ata harddisk and marked it as system disk, (D: and E: are dvdrom and cdrw) is there a way to set my sata harddisk to
drive C: and marked as both boot disk and system disk? I dont mind reinstalling, I just want it as C: as I may remove my old pata harddisk later

[JBM]

"Terence" > wrote in message
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> I have just upgraded my computer and want to do a fresh install on winxp
pro, originally I have 1 pata harddisk (primary master), dvdrom (secondary
master) and cdrw (secondary slave), I have added an SATA harddisk (seagate
80G), winxp install runs smoothy but when I boot it up after setup, winxp
assigned drive F: to my SATA harddisk (which is the boot disk) and C: is
assigned to my original ata harddisk and marked it as system disk, (D: and
E: are dvdrom and cdrw) is there a way to set my sata harddisk to drive C:
and marked as both boot disk and system disk? I dont mind reinstalling, I
just want it as C: as I may remove my old pata harddisk later

I had basically the same problem and solved it by temporarily removing the
PATA drive and installing
XP on my SATA drive and then reinstalling the PATA
drive.

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

You can manually change the drive letters in the registry under
MountedDevices as well.

--
Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server Group

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"JBM" > wrote in message
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> "Terence" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I have just upgraded my computer and want to do a fresh install on winxp
> pro, originally I have 1 pata harddisk (primary master), dvdrom (secondary
> master) and cdrw (secondary slave), I have added an SATA harddisk (seagate
> 80G), winxp install runs smoothy but when I boot it up after setup, winxp
> assigned drive F: to my SATA harddisk (which is the boot disk) and C: is
> assigned to my original ata harddisk and marked it as system disk, (D:
and
> E: are dvdrom and cdrw) is there a way to set my sata harddisk to drive C:
> and marked as both boot disk and system disk? I dont mind reinstalling, I
> just want it as C: as I may remove my old pata harddisk later
>
> I had basically the same problem and solved it by temporarily removing the
> PATA drive and installing
> XP on my SATA drive and then reinstalling the PATA
> drive.
>
>