Boot Volume Drive Letter?

[TSDible]

Hey all,

I just finished setting up my A64 system on a MSI K8N Neo2

Everything went great, but as I was starting to install some apps, I realized that my primary drive which is on the first SATA controller is drive letter I: Every other drive in my system comes before it.

This is a real annoyance I guess. I'm so used to the drive being C:

Windows says I can't change it.

What can I do, and why did it do this?

It is the only Hard Drive in my system. The rest of the drives is a memory reader ( 4 drives ) and my DVD drive and Burner.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

 

[montag451]

you could try partition manager 8.x.
That neat app can change drive letters and associations, but, for a bootable drive you would be lucky to get anywhere near 90% fixing it so that there are no probs

 

[mechBgon]

1) Remove the memory-card reader temporarily

2) Start Windows Setup from CD-ROM again

3) When you get to where it shows the HDD partitions, delete them all, then press the F3 key twice to exit Windows Setup.

4) Start Windows Setup again with the memory-card reader disconnected, and after Windows is going, you can hook up your memory-card reader again 🙂

 

[montag451]

A much better idea mechBgon

 

[TSDible]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
1) Remove the memory-card reader temporarily

2) Start Windows Setup from CD-ROM again

3) When you get to where it shows the HDD partitions, delete them all, then press the F3 key twice to exit Windows Setup.

4) Start Windows Setup again with the memory-card reader disconnected, and after Windows is going, you can hook up your memory-card reader again 🙂

Thanks that is good information.

I hadn't gotten too far. I just removed the card reader and reinstalled windows. Everything is fine now. I'm amazed at how fast the A64 got the job done. 🙂

I'm posting from it now.