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R RAWLINS
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 Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: Wrong Drive Letter Assigned |
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Today I was doing a routine installation of Windows XP Professional, and
only after I had created a primary partition and was formatting it did I
notice that it had been assigned the drive letter E instead of C.
Evidently, Setup thought it saw another storage device, but I don't know
what it could have been. Anyway, I let it finish formatting, but when it
started to copy files, I physically rebooted the computer. I then went into
the CMOS settings and prioritized the CD-ROM so it wouldn't try to boot from
the HDD. This time, it recognized C as a formatted partition, and I
completed the installation without a problem. Trouble is, I have no idea
what happened here. Anybody ever experience this?
Bob
Bob Rawlins
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Barry Watzman
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:35 am Post subject: Re: Wrong Drive Letter Assigned |
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As you said it saw something else. A NON-MICROSOFT bootable CD-ROM
(media) booted in a drive can (depending on how it was made, e.g. the
contents of it's "boot image") become two drives ... the "boot image"
(which usually becomse a phantom A and the "rest" of the CD (which
normally gets the next available drive letter). Also, a USB device can
be seen as a disk drive and allocated "the next available letter".
R RAWLINS wrote:
| Quote: | Today I was doing a routine installation of Windows XP Professional, and
only after I had created a primary partition and was formatting it did I
notice that it had been assigned the drive letter E instead of C.
Evidently, Setup thought it saw another storage device, but I don't know
what it could have been. Anyway, I let it finish formatting, but when it
started to copy files, I physically rebooted the computer. I then went into
the CMOS settings and prioritized the CD-ROM so it wouldn't try to boot from
the HDD. This time, it recognized C as a formatted partition, and I
completed the installation without a problem. Trouble is, I have no idea
what happened here. Anybody ever experience this?
Bob
Bob Rawlins
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R RAWLINS
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Wrong Drive Letter Assigned |
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Okay, that seems to explain it. The printer was plugged in via the USB
cable. Thanks.
RR
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | As you said it saw something else. A NON-MICROSOFT bootable CD-ROM
(media) booted in a drive can (depending on how it was made, e.g. the
contents of it's "boot image") become two drives ... the "boot image"
(which usually becomse a phantom A and the "rest" of the CD (which
normally gets the next available drive letter). Also, a USB device can be
seen as a disk drive and allocated "the next available letter".
R RAWLINS wrote:
Today I was doing a routine installation of Windows XP Professional, and
only after I had created a primary partition and was formatting it did I
notice that it had been assigned the drive letter E instead of C.
Evidently, Setup thought it saw another storage device, but I don't know
what it could have been. Anyway, I let it finish formatting, but when it
started to copy files, I physically rebooted the computer. I then went
into the CMOS settings and prioritized the CD-ROM so it wouldn't try to
boot from the HDD. This time, it recognized C as a formatted partition,
and I completed the installation without a problem. Trouble is, I have
no idea what happened here. Anybody ever experience this?
Bob
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