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Get XP to recognize Drive #0 as C

Office23, on Saturday 3 May 2008 à 10:42:34
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My machine contains a Western Digital 250GB(Drive #0) and a second WD (Drive #1) with data in three partitions. When I placed a fresh install on the newly formatted #0, the drive emerged labeled Drive G. I've been told that in order to label #0 as C:, I must disconnect the second, data drive (#1), wipe the MBR on #0(using as a boot disk the lean system on UBCD4Win and one of the apps contained on it), insert the XP install disk and proceed, formatting the disk when required. After the install I would reengage Drive #1.

My question: can I "disable" drive #1 while the OS is still mounted on Drive#0, using Device Manager, then proceed to wipe the MBR

and install to the still enabled #0, or will I have to open the machine and physically pull the plug on Drive #1? To put it another way, will the XP installer find and assign drive letter C to the first partition of Drive #1 even though it was disabled by Device Manager? I'm partially disabled, and physically opening the machine presents a problem.
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god09, on Saturday 3 May 2008 à 13:22:00
Hai

Somebody, or a bunch of people, you talked to was/were complicating things too much. XP Setup assigns drive letters according to what drive letters have already been assigned on the computer to other partitions XP recognizes.
If you eliminate Setup from seeing other partitions, the partition XP installs Windows on is always C.

Go into your bios Setup and disable the detection of the connection Drive 1 is on, save settings, reboot.
If drive 1 is IDE slave or SATA that probably won't cause a problem.
If your drive 1 is otherwise connected, or if that causes a problem, let us know.


Boot with the XP CD, run a regular Setup, delete the existing partition from drive 0, make a new one, proceed normally with Setup.

When it has finished, the partition XP Windows is on will be C.

The MBR has also probably been re-written to suit.

Enable the connection of drive 1 in the bios Setup.
Try your system.
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If you have any problem related to the MBR, boot with the XP CD, let the initial Setup files load, press R at the first screen where it asks you if you want to Repair Windows - that goes to the Recovery Console.

(If it finds more than one Windows installation location, choose C:\Windows)

Press Enter when it asks for a password.

type: fixmbr - press Enter, answer yes.
type: exit - press Enter - to exit Recovery Console and auto reboot the computer.
Don't press a key to boot from the XP CD.
The computer should boot fine.
Remove the XP CD.

If you need to enable booting multiple operating systems, we can tell you how to do that with Recovery Console if all bootable operating systems are detectable by XP.
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"My question: can I "disable" drive #1 while the OS is still mounted on Drive#0, using Device Manager, then proceed to wipe the MBR
and install to the still enabled #0... "

Wiping (re-writing, actually) the MBR will not make the Windows partition C if the Windows installation is still on the drive and it was using some other drive letter.

Windows Setup has no way of knowing what the Device Manager settings are.
   
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 RadioJak, on Tuesday 18 November 2008 à 22:51:41
What most people do like when installing a new harddrive is format it in Windows ..Why because its simple and faster most of the time. The problem is that when you boot up from another hard drive Windows assigns a drive letter to the slave drive ..when you format it that drive letter is written to the drive. Then when you go to clone another drive to it after it's formatted you probaly have a boot.ini with a C: drive reference in the boot path and the computer will not boot because it sees the drive letter that was asigned to the drive by Windows and it's some other drive letter other than C:

So the answer is format the new drive with a boot disk of some kind don't let it boot into Windows.
   
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