Boot Drive Letter E:

[Brian Conner]

I've installed and reinstalled Windows SP and both times
it made the boot drive E:.

The first time I had an Iomega Zip drive installed as the
Secondary Slave drive, and I understnad that will cause
this problem.

But I unplugged the Zip before I reinstalled, and I
choose New Installation and checked the box to be given a
choice for the boot drive letter. I was never given that
choice and the boot drive is E: once again.

How can I solve this?

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Brian,

Use the XP disk to remove the existing already-labeled drives and create new
ones, then you should get the option to choose the boot letter. If there is
any data currently on the drive, it will be lost doing this. By the way,
there is no rule that the boot drive has to be C:\, it can be E:\ and run
along just fine.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
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"Brian Conner" > wrote in message
...
> I've installed and reinstalled Windows SP and both times
> it made the boot drive E:.
>
> The first time I had an Iomega Zip drive installed as the
> Secondary Slave drive, and I understnad that will cause
> this problem.
>
> But I unplugged the Zip before I reinstalled, and I
> choose New Installation and checked the box to be given a
> choice for the boot drive letter. I was never given that
> choice and the boot drive is E: once again.
>
> How can I solve this?

[Brian Conner]

Rick, thanks for the reply. I tried that, in effect, by
reinstalling and selecting New Installation, rather than
Upgrade. I was given the option to check the box to be
able to select the drive letter, and I checked it. I'll
be calling Micorsoft for help this morning.

The reason I want to change the boot to C: is that some
installers assume the boot drive is C: and will throw an
error message if the C: drive is empty.