Drive changed letters by itself

[unfaithfulsfan]

Hi all,
Recently did a clean install of Dell XP Media Center on a WD Scorpio 250 GB SATA 1.5 HDD to an Inspiron 1505 laptop. Aside from a Maybe 2 months later on boot received an "ntldr is missing" message. Upon running repair console, the only installation shown was "D:\Windows" which, obviously, is quite depressing.

Is there a way (short of formatting the drive) to reassign the drive letter to "C:\"?

Thanks for your help!

Jack

 

[treefrog07]

See if you can enter the BIOS at POST (press the Del key or F2 key), and make sure the first HDD to boot is the one with XP on it. If you have to change the boot order, then save and exit the BIOS. The machine will re-boot, and should boot into XP

 

[aford10]

What was the size showing on that D partition?

 

[unfaithfulsfan]

Unfortunately (in a sense, I guess) the owner needed the laptop back ASAP for an out of town trip. He told me to just format and reinstall Windows. I was able to save his files, however. I told him I can't guarantee this won't happen again.

I sincerely appreciate your help and if it does happen again, I'll revisit this thread.

Many thanks, again,
Jack