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Primary HDD w/Windows shows up as Drive F

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Yzzim

Lifer
Ok, I'm stumped.

I installed a new (new to me, anyway...) 36GB Raptor last night. It's hooked up to the Primary Serial 1 port as Master. I have no other serial HDDs hooked up.

My storage drive is on the Primary IDE Channel, and it's hooked up as Slave. There are no other IDE HDDs hooked up.

Now get this, my 36GB Raptor (Serial, Master HDD, w/Windows) shows up as Drive F. My Storage Drive (IDE, Primary Slave) shows up as Drive C. WTF??? 😕 It doesn't affect my system performance at all (that I know of) but it's pretty annoying.

How can I get my Primary HDD to show up as Drive C?

Sys specs:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon 2800+
1GB Memory
ATI Radeon 9800
36GB WD Raptor
160GB Maxtor
16x DVD+-RW Burner
48X Samsung CDRW
 
If you don't mind installing the OS again you can remove everything other than the SATA HD and the optical drive you are installing from.
 
Originally posted by: WHipLAsh13
If you don't mind installing the OS again you can remove everything other than the SATA HD and the optical drive you are installing from.
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AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*pulls out hair*

I hate downloading drivers :|
 
All you should need to do is:
With your machine off, unplug your IDE drive and any optical drives (leaving only the SATA drive installed.
Boot it up and Windows will reassign it as drive C.

Shut it down and plug in your IDE drive.
When you reboot it will be assigned drive letter D.

Use the same procedure with your optical drives and they should be assigned drive letters accordingly.
 
Originally posted by: Sarge1
All you should need to do is:
With your machine off, unplug your IDE drive and any optical drives (leaving only the SATA drive installed.
Boot it up and Windows will reassign it as drive C.

Shut it down and plug in your IDE drive.
When you reboot it will be assigned drive letter D.

Use the same procedure with your optical drives and they should be assigned drive letters accordingly.
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And that will wreck all registry and file associations

 
Originally posted by: Yzzim
Ok, I'm stumped.

I installed a new (new to me, anyway...) 36GB Raptor last night. It's hooked up to the Primary Serial 1 port as Master. I have no other serial HDDs hooked up.

My storage drive is on the Primary IDE Channel, and it's hooked up as Slave. There are no other IDE HDDs hooked up.

Now get this, my 36GB Raptor (Serial, Master HDD, w/Windows) shows up as Drive F. My Storage Drive (IDE, Primary Slave) shows up as Drive C. WTF??? 😕 It doesn't affect my system performance at all (that I know of) but it's pretty annoying.

How can I get my Primary HDD to show up as Drive C?

Sys specs:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon 2800+
1GB Memory
ATI Radeon 9800
36GB WD Raptor
160GB Maxtor
16x DVD+-RW Burner
48X Samsung CDRW
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First: I'll explain the reason, the reason is that SATA controllers are seen as 3rd controller, after primary IDE and secondary IDE
unfortunate, but it is what it is

Second: how to avoid at first insall, at first install do a install with only the system (whatever drive you want the windows on) hooked up

Third: how to fix at this point - see Sarge1 post, but see Bozo Galora's warning as well, I would recommend the Second as a solution.



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sucked it up and reinstalled Windows with my storage drive unplugged. Windows is now on drive C and Storage is drive F.

I'd like to have my Storage drive be Drive D, but that's not a priority.
 
Originally posted by: Yzzim
sucked it up and reinstalled Windows with my storage drive unplugged. Windows is now on drive C and Storage is drive F.

I'd like to have my Storage drive be Drive D, but that's not a priority.
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You can do that pretty easily. Right-click your computer, choose Manage, go down the console's tree to Disk Management, right-click the optical drive that's hogging D:, and move it down to some other letter, then put your storage drive as D: in its place. If it causes a problem, you can always reverse the procedure.

 
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