XP Boot Drive Issues

[Zerotrek]

I have 3 new HD's. One SCSI, two SATA. I backed up some files from another computer on one of the SATA drives. I installed the SCSI card drivers, formatted the SCSi drive and installed the OS on the SCSI drive. I set the BIOS so the add in card (SCSI) is the primary boot device and the SCSI drive as the first boot drive.

Here is the problem, when I try to boot, the system says there is no boot disc drive. If I place the XP CD back in the CD player, the system boots. I checked the drive letters and the SATA drive with the back up files is letter C. The SATA drive with nothing on it is letter D and the SCSI drive with the OS is letter E.

The system will not allow me to change drive C (SATA) because it says it's a system volume drive. It will not allow me to change drive E (SCSI) because it is a boot volume drive. Any ideas how I get the SCSI drive to be designated drive C? I think this would solve the boot problem. Any other suggestions? Thank you.

 

[Taz480]

Im not quite sure of the solution to ur problem yet, but its not the drive letter. When I had my triple boot, I started with WinME on C: drive, W2k on D: drive and I installed XP on G: drive. My opticals were E: and F:. So, drive letter doesn't matter. I am thinking its more of an issue with the SCSI card or something. I may be wrong about the card but I just wanted to share my experience with the drive letters.

 

[Alowishus]

I had a similar problem when I imaged my old 80 gig onto my 300 gig and it set the 300 gig as E:. If you can get to the registry try this

 

[JohnG86]

To install Windows on Drive C, the best way is to unplug all other drives from power and data cable. If it says C Drive in the Windows blue setup then it should be drive C once installed. After Windows is installed, then feel free to connect the other drives.