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More info?)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326683
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Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
"BAR" <BAR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:00D11B71-2D45-4A6E-8918-65BCDA393F88@microsoft.com...
> Just to clear up drive letter assignments: as some of you are obviously
> mistaken.
>
> XP assigns drive letters in the following manner:
>
> C - Drive to the first partition [or whole unpartitioned drive] attached
as
> MASTER on the Primary IDE interface
> D - Drive to the first partition [or whole unpartitioned drive] attached
as
> MASTER on the Secondary IDE interface; after C Drive is already assigned
> otherwise it defaults back to C.
> E - Drive to the second partition of the first drive attached as MASTER on
> the Primary IDE interface [or whole unpartitioned drive], or the first
> partition [or whole unpartitioned drive] attached as SLAVE on the Primary
IDE
> interface, where there is already a drive attached as MASTER.
> and so on.
> The next available drive letter [say F, following the sequence used in
this
> example] is assigned to the Optical Drive or other device attached to the
> Primary IDE interface as SLAVE.
>
> Any external devices are then assigned drive letters sbject to the rules
> above. This includes USB attached Hard Drive, USB Memory Sticks [aka
'Jump
> Drive], Memory Card Readers [used for Camera Memory Modules and other
items
> like the IBM Micro Drive] attached as separate devices or as part of a
> printer.
>
> Drives A and B are reserved for Floppy Disk Drives.
>
> SO for your PC where the XP installation went to the D Drive, you must
have
> 2 partitions on the C Drive or have directed the installation to take
place
> onto a second hard drive -it's all too easy, especially if you performed
an
> upgrade from Win Me or 98.
>
>
>
> "Harry Ohrn" wrote:
>
> > It sounds like you had some type of external drive connected at the time
you
> > installed. Maybe even a card in a usb card reader. Do to a large number
of
> > registry entries now pointing to D you'll need to reinstall XP clean.
Ensure
> > you've unplugged your peripherals first.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
> > www.webtree.ca/windowsxp
> >
> >
> > "michaelk025@hotmail.com"
<michaelk025hotmailcom@discussions.microsoft.com>
> > wrote in message
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> > > For some reason when I installed windows it the drive was suppose to
be
> > the
> > > c: drive but it came up as the d: drive. I have tried to fix this
using
> > disk
> > > management but it wont let me change the boot drives letter. Is there
> > another
> > > was to change the drives letter so that I will be the c: drive???
> >
> >
> >