Windows XP Pro - New Installation on SD31P

[milanlad]

I was just installing a Windows XP Pro on a brand new hard drive on my Shuttle SD31P. I am installing on a SATA drive. I have two SATA installed in the PC.

The hard drive I am installing Win XP on is 160Gb, so I partitioned it as 40Gb/120GB, and the OS is to be installed on the 40Gb partition.

Anyway, I booted the Win XP CD and started the installation process.

What was strange was that it labelled the 40Gb partition as letter F:\ and not C:\

I let the Windows installation partition and format the drive.

Is this normal?


Thanks in advance for any help.

[adman]

Hi

I have 3xSATA II drives in my shuttle SD31P with RAID0, and I get the main partition being F: as well... (I have 2 SD31P and both have same F. C: & D: are generally the card reader drives. No idea why this is. I just put up with it

Also, even without RAID0, you get the main drive being F: aswell on the SD31P...

One shuttle
cheers
Adam

[Shmee150]

When you create the partition on the blue windows screen, it determines the letter then, after you have created the partition, you can remove it, then simply recreating it tends to change it to C as it should

Yes it's that simple

ShMeE

[FatalSaviour]

It generally depends on the order you created your partitions in. You should be able to sort this out by doing what Shmee says above.
(If it wasn't a system or boot volume, you could use the Disk Management in Administrative Tools to change the drive letter), but I'm not sure if there's a way to do this for your Windows partition.

[Shmee150]

I have no explanation for why it works (it's not a case of wiping the list and replacing them), it's just something I've come across having installed windows maybe 50 times on Shuttles now... You only need to recreate that one partition and it will move the others away from C.

And to the best of my knowledge you can't change the drive letter for a windows partition.

ShMeE

[milanlad]

I figured out that if you remove the connector for the card reader during partitioning and installing XP then that helps.

The second time I did the installation I got C: and not F:

[Stephen B]

"figured out" ?

is that what you call asking on another forum cos your stumped