A problem with drive letter assignment....

[6800GTguy]

When I built my PC (a while ago) i ditched a regular floppy for a 3-in-1 floppy drive+card reader combo from Mitsumi. It works fine, but there's a problem (or i wouldn't have posted here...) - Drive A is the floppy, but drives C and E are assigned to the card slots. My optical drive is D, and my partitioned hard drive is F and G. The problem arises with programs such as Ad-Aware and Spybot, which give "disk is not found" messages when I scan for adware, which I assume is due to the fact that they search for system files on drive C by default.
Now, I am going to be adding a 74Gb Raptor as my primary hard drive in a few weeks, and formatting my 7.2K hard drive and converting it to a secondary storage drive. This would be a good time to solve my drive assignment problem. Would anyone know how to straighten out this whole drive letter assignment thing so that C is my local disk?

I could just take out the combo drive and buy a floppy drive and a seperate media drive, but, you know, that's more money...

Note ? I have gone into the boot menu, and it is set up as such ? Primary Drive = Floppy Drive, Secondary Drives = 1.Hard Drive, 2.Add-In Cards

 

[CheesePoofs]

If you're doing a fresh install, just unplug all your otehr drives before hand so it has to give C: to your main drive. You can also change drive letters by going to control panel => administrative tools => computer management => disk management, although I'm not sure if it'll let you change the letter of the drive Windows is on.

 

[GregANDTCH]

Ad-Aware and Spybot, which give "disk is not found" messages when I scan for adware, which I assume is due to the fact that they search for system files on drive C by default.

I don't think that's it.
My D drive is my system drive & both programs work.

In Ad-Aware you can change the drive letters it checks.

Have you tried reinstalling both of them?
Will they not run at all?

 

[imported_dakota81]

It's always best to have a C: drive be a harddrive even if you put your OS on another partition.

If you ever do reinstall XP and have troubles getting the harddrive to pick up the C: partition, a workaround is to format it as FAT32, reboot, install XP, then convert FAT32 to NTFS once XP is finished loaded.

 

[6800GTguy]

in response to greg - i reinstalled spybot a few times and it still gives the "disk not found error", and I can't find any option to set which drives it checks. I did reassign the ad-aware drive and it works fine now.

I went into the admin tools, and while I can change the letters of my hard drive/partitions, I can't make them anything from A to E, as those are already assigned, and I those drives assigned to ABCD were not shown in the same box and I could not find a way to reassign their letters.

I will however use your tips when putting in the new hard drive.

Thanks!

 

[montag451]

Hi,
Just checking.
When you originally installed the os, was it to the C drive? with the mitsumi in or out?