Re: Clean install, System disk drive letter = F?

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this is not uncommon, and is not a real problem, the system will still
work just fine. Mine has been E: (boot.ini) and F: (\windows) since
day-one and has never been a problem.

in fact, some security wonks like it when the system disk isn't C:, since
some dumb spyware assumes it always will be. [Then again, some (very) old
legitimate software may also assume so, but I've never encountered any
issues in 3 years.]

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there is a purported get-around to this: when XP Setup asks you to
initially choose/make a partition, do so and THEN DELETE ALL THE
PARTITIONS and recreate it again. For some reason this causes it to
assign that new partition C:.

I would also leave that ZIP Drive disconnected until after XP is up and
running. XP treats zip drives just like any other IDE drive. Just connect
the one CD Drive and the one HD (or raid array). Plug everything else in
after XP setup has worked.


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