OS Drive became D:\... what do i do?

[EKKC]

I just installed Windows 2003 on my server. In the server I had a SCSI and 2 IDE drives on a ATA card, somehow one of those IDE drives became C:\, and my SCSI drive where I installed the OS became D:

I disabled the ATA card in device mgr and rebooted, now I only see one drive but it still say d:, and it wont let me change the drive letter in Disk Management.


little help?

 

[crobusa]

Be Very careful.

This could mess up your machine, but good.

 

[EKKC]

i found that same article and did it before your post.
its messed up now. i would put in my password and it takes a while to "apply computer settings" then it goes back to the screen and ask me to do a CTRL ALT DEL. i can restore it back with a rescue disc and regedit, but i just rather take out the whole IDE card and reinstall windows server.

thanks

 

[Nothinman]

What exactly is the problem with the OS being on d:?

 

[sonoma1993]

the easiest way to make your scsi the c: during install, is to just unplug the ide harddrives during windows install, and just plug them back in when you finally get windows loaded.

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
What exactly is the problem with the OS being on d:?

nothing. im just anal like that.

if anything i read that its better to have the server OS on D: or something else as many poorly written viruses and scripts target C:\winnt and c:\windows

 

[Phoenix86]

I'd recommend doing nothing, or reformatting. I have never seen someone correct this w/o issue. There is even a MS technet doc on it somewhere, but still...

 

[volrath]

my system drive is f:
🙂

I have discovered many poorly written programs that automatically assume your drive is C:\, but most do not.