Re: XP Installation, hard drive issue

In news:1113495539.280496.119280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Dan <gamesstate@xxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Hello
>
> I have two hard disks in my computer, one Seagate SATA 120 GB, and
> another maxtor ide 80 gb
>
> I want to install XP on the SATA because its a faster disk.
> When I start to install XP I have to put the diskette with the drivers
> so it recognizes the disc.
> My question is the following. If I have connected the IDE disk and the
> SATA disk and I tell windows to install itself on the sata disk, it
> assigns the drive letter "c" to the ide this and "d" to the sata and
> it installs XP on "d" drive(sata).
> To avoid that(cause I read someplace that isnt a good idea to install
> xp on a drive letter different than "c") i unplug power from the ide
> disk, install xp and after its installed I plug it back in. Then XP,
> assigns the letter "f".
>
> Is this normal behavior? Could this be causing any problems on my C
> disk?
> Thanks in advance,
> -Dan

Is it normal? Not really but that has to be one of the most creative work
arounds I've seen for that problem. I'll make a note of it because it's that
interesting and really simpler than some of the other things that I've read.
Could it be causing problems? It could but I doubt that it is. Are you
having any problems? If not then I'd not worry about it. If you don't want
it to be assigned the letter of F then you can change that if you'd like if
that's your problem. Start, run, compmgmt.msc, enter, disk management on the
left, in there you can change drive letters and paths.

Galen
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Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.


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