Re: XP wants to install on D drive

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"Big_Al" wrote:

graveller39 wrote:
I did a clean re-install of Windows XP Pro SP2.

I have 3 physical drives connected - one on each of the two SATA channels
and the 3rd on the PATA channel along with a CD/DVD drive also on the PATA
channel.

On SATA channel 1, I installed a new hard drive. The only way I could get
the XP Setup program to see this new disc as the C drive (rather than D, E,
or F) was to disconnect the other drives - except for the CD drive.

During the install, I partitioned the new drive.

After the install, Windows Explorer recognizes the drives as such:
C - local drive (1st partion of new disc 1)
D - 2nd SATA drive
E - CD/DVD drive
F - 2nd partion of disc 1
G - PATA drive

Everything seemed fine, but after a couple weeks I received a disc
configuration error on bootup.

When I insert the Windows disc to attempt a repair/recovery, the Setup
program sees my Windows install on the D drive.

I cannot perform bootcfg /rebuild as the Windows installation can't be
found. chkdsk seems to work ok and afterwards the system boots up fine, but
after a day or so I get the same configuration error on bootup.

Any ideas...?

And why would Windows Recovery see my Windows installation on the D drive???

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Just a suggestion. I have IDE / SATA on my desktop and now and then the
order of the drives is different in the BIOS. I boot from the first SATA
drive, and if it becomes the secondary drive then the primary drive IDE tries
to boot, with no OS I get errors and know immediately I have to reorder the
drives in the BIOS.
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thanks Big Al,
I noticed the same thing in my BIOS - changing the 1st boot drive allows me
to boot up sometimes - other times I still need to do a chkdsk before I can
get my system to boot.
Strange that I never had the problem before though. I had exactly the same
setup except I had a Seagate 250GB on my SATA channel 1 - now I have an
Hitachi 1000GB.
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