dbarrow
03-29-2006, 04:14 PM
Unplugging the drives DOES make a difference!
XP has this very quirky thing about how it sees drives and partitions alternating from one to the next in the naming conventions. It will read drive0, partition 1 as C: then drive 1, partition 1 as D: and so on, alternating back and forth.
Drives me batty!
In order to FORCE a drive letter configuration for an install, you have to create partitions first, of appropriate sizes, to select the drive and partition that you want XP to land on.
Then, XP always writes the boot files to default C:
I have a real routine to go through to force XP onto E:
Partition Magic is an essential tool here, even though XP will insist on again formatting the partition for NTFS despite having already done that with PM.
XP has this very quirky thing about how it sees drives and partitions alternating from one to the next in the naming conventions. It will read drive0, partition 1 as C: then drive 1, partition 1 as D: and so on, alternating back and forth.
Drives me batty!
In order to FORCE a drive letter configuration for an install, you have to create partitions first, of appropriate sizes, to select the drive and partition that you want XP to land on.
Then, XP always writes the boot files to default C:
I have a real routine to go through to force XP onto E:
Partition Magic is an essential tool here, even though XP will insist on again formatting the partition for NTFS despite having already done that with PM.