Re: Drive letters changed after replacing hard drive in Windows XP/Iomega ZIP disk

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:54:46 +0100

Mike wrote:

>I have been asked to replace an ailing hard drive on a Dell Inspiron
>8200 laptop. The drive letters on the Windows XP system were as follows
>before the replacement:
>
>C: old hard drive
>D: CD-ROM drive
>E: Iomaga ATAPI Zip Drive 250
>
>I partitioned the new drive into two 30 GB Partitions. When I booted
>XP, they showed up as follows
>
>C: Iomega Zip Drive
>D; CD Rom Drive
>E: new hard drive (primary boot partition, the drive on which Windows is
>installed
>F: second hard drive partition.

You will have to start over and do a new clean install, deleting the
existing partition and rebooting to do it, *with the ZIP drive
disconnected*. They are notorious for having this effect on drive
letters. But once setup it is not practicable to change the letter of
the drive where the system is 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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