New hard drive assigned wrong drive letter..

Have you changed the boot order back to HDD?

Will it allow you to change it if you disconnect your CD drive and set the boot order to HDD?

I don't think you can change it back, short of reinstalling.
Too many elements in your registry will have been pointed at the E: drive trying to move the windows install will likely cause all sorts of issues.

I'm not too sure how this could have happened though, I don't think it's boot order related.

I only have 2 hypothesis right now
Either you had some hardware installed that reserved the few drive letters (floopy, card readers). If so try reinstalling without them installed.

Since your using winxp I assume it's an older machine? Are your drives (CD and HD) IDE drives? If so is your main HD set as master on the first IDE channel?
I'm assuming having the CD drive as master and the HD drive as slaved might have caused this although it would be slightly far-fetched

Thanks for the info.

I could try to unplug the CD (Master "D") and ZIP drive (Slave "C") and them reboot, then plug them in again and reboot. They are IDE.

The HD ("E") is SATA and is the only one.

What about trying this:

http://www.petri.co.il/change_system_drive_letter_in_wi...

It might work?

Scott

It should work if there is no other simpler way.

I wouldn't try what's mentioned in that article.

First sentence from the article :
"For the most part, this is not recommended, especially if the drive letter is the same as when Windows was installed."

The article also provided a link to the following page which states the same thing http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

Reinstalling without the zip drive might work but I assume you'll still need the CD drive