I'm not sure if XP is my friend yet but I filled with consternation....
I installed a new ECS K7S5A mother board (with a BIOS dated 9/24/2001) and a AMD 1700+ CPU. Everything in the BIOS setup looked fine. The BIOS found my new Western Digital 120 GB HD, my Teac CD writer and my humble 100 MB internal Zip drive. No other drive showed in the BIOS setup (as expected). I popped in my new MS XP OEM CD and booted my PC. The computer rebooted and found the virgin hard drive and asked to format it as NTFS. I said "yes" and went to bed. This morning I found my machine all setup with XP as expected. I rebooted the machine (as instructed) and proceeded to load some of my software. I then noticed my CD was drive C:, Zipper was D: and my new, big, HD was E:!
I know that HD should be automatically found as C: I know that I can change drive letters on all drives but the boot drive. I tried this and sure enough, I could change any other drive letter but E: because it was my boot drive. So
1) Any idea why this E: drive happened? (Please no because you used M$ software
) and
2) Could I install a new drive as C: and the only drive in the machine then hook up my goofy E: which should be D: and then change my new D: drives registery (via regedit), icon paths, .ini files drive letter E: to C:? (Next, I would power down the PC, remove the old C: and install my new WD (ex-E:, D: ( drive as C:, I hope.)
All help is greatly appreciated!
SCH
I installed a new ECS K7S5A mother board (with a BIOS dated 9/24/2001) and a AMD 1700+ CPU. Everything in the BIOS setup looked fine. The BIOS found my new Western Digital 120 GB HD, my Teac CD writer and my humble 100 MB internal Zip drive. No other drive showed in the BIOS setup (as expected). I popped in my new MS XP OEM CD and booted my PC. The computer rebooted and found the virgin hard drive and asked to format it as NTFS. I said "yes" and went to bed. This morning I found my machine all setup with XP as expected. I rebooted the machine (as instructed) and proceeded to load some of my software. I then noticed my CD was drive C:, Zipper was D: and my new, big, HD was E:!
I know that HD should be automatically found as C: I know that I can change drive letters on all drives but the boot drive. I tried this and sure enough, I could change any other drive letter but E: because it was my boot drive. So
1) Any idea why this E: drive happened? (Please no because you used M$ software
) and2) Could I install a new drive as C: and the only drive in the machine then hook up my goofy E: which should be D: and then change my new D: drives registery (via regedit), icon paths, .ini files drive letter E: to C:? (Next, I would power down the PC, remove the old C: and install my new WD (ex-E:, D: ( drive as C:, I hope.)
All help is greatly appreciated!
SCH
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