hard drive assignment problem

[superflysocal]

I had win 98 installed on a c drive. Then I got a 2nd hd and wanted to install win xp on it. everything went smooth except one issue. I installed it directly by booting from the cd-rom ( i have cd-rom and cdrw). so when xp saw the unpartitioned drive it asked to partitioned it as an F: drive because d: and E: were the two cd-rom drives. How do I force the computer to change this so that I have c=win98, d=winxp, e anf f= cdrom drive? I am willing to reinstall win xp again but still don't know how to force the drive recognition. Once a boot volume drive is partitioned a certain assignment, is it permament?

second issue:
I have a 8kha+ and 1600+ setup. With win 98, i had the shutdown problem that plagued so many. It would not completely shut down. Had epox sent me a replacement bios chip and never had the problem again. Now that i have win xp installed it is happening again! Except it is not as bad. At least now it gets to the screen, "you may shut down your computer safely". Also, it can restart without a problem (something my pre-bios exchange win 98 could not do). Any suggestion?

 

[ineedsleep]

hmm... as for the first problem... you can't change the drive letter of a boot device from the original letter it was assigned during installation. Well you might be able to but i doubt your system will work

As for assigining a drive letter to your winxp install (D... i don't know how that's done either...

In regards to your second problem, i believe it has something to do with ACPI either being turned on, or turned off. Perhaps another one of our members will have a more... umm... definite answer for you...

Sorry couldn't help ya more...

 

[ChunkiMunki]

try booting to 98 and change the cd-rom assignments to "y" and "z". then try installing xp. you might have to do a clean install through win98, not the bootable cd. Also you might have to install xp twice until it sees your new cd-rom drive assignments.

 

[superflysocal]

thanx for the reply. i have acpi disabled in bios right now. should i turn it on? I thought most people don't like it.
Also, acpi was not turned on in win 98 and it was able to shut down fine.

 

[superflysocal]

also, on the first problem:

if i reinstall win xp through win 98 boot up, will i need to repartition or reformat the second hard drive? if so what is the win xp utility to do that?

 

[ChunkiMunki]

Xp will give you the option to format your 2nd hard drive during the install. You don't have to do anything clean installing through 98. I leave ACPI off cuz I always have trouble with it eventually.

 

[superflysocal]

Ok i got the hard drive problem fixed. Followed the suggestion of renaming cdrom drives to something else leavind D: available and reinstalling under win 98. worked!!

Now the shutdown problem...help! Do you have this problem Chunki?

 

[ChunkiMunki]

try going to Control Panel/Power Options and enabling APM and see if that helps. Other than that I can't help ya.....