Re: I have no C: drive only an F: drive! (XP)

Duane Arnold, <>, the weak-hinged, mundane galley slave, and
street entertainer who sings ballads, instructed:

> Paul H wrote:
>
>> I recently formatted my HD and reinstalled WinXP. On completion I
>> found in " My Computer" that my Internal zip drive has been assigned
>> drive letter C: and my HD has been assigned F:.
>>
>> Why the hell Windows XP did this I do not know, there was no zip
>> disk in the drive during installation. Some programs are behaving
>> erratically and some are not installing at all, depending on how
>> well written they were in coping with a system disk other that C:.
>>
>> Is there any way I can make my F: drive a C: without reinstalling
>> windows?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Paul
>
> Yeah, you can do that off of Admin Tools/Disk Management and in the
> lower pane select the drive and right-click *Change Drive Letter or
> Path*.
>
> Duane

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA! You techno-****tard idiot. That sort of
****witted response is typical of you, DUHane. You ****ing know-nothing
moron.

--
Thou ingrown toenail. Thou hell-bound.

Kadaitcha Man

Kadaitcha Man wrote:
> Duane Arnold, <>, the weak-hinged, mundane galley
> slave, and street entertainer who sings ballads, instructed:
>
>> Paul H wrote:
>>
>>> I recently formatted my HD and reinstalled WinXP. On completion I
>>> found in " My Computer" that my Internal zip drive has been assigned
>>> drive letter C: and my HD has been assigned F:.
>>>
>>> Why the hell Windows XP did this I do not know, there was no zip
>>> disk in the drive during installation. Some programs are behaving
>>> erratically and some are not installing at all, depending on how
>>> well written they were in coping with a system disk other that C:.
>>>
>>> Is there any way I can make my F: drive a C: without reinstalling
>>> windows?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> Yeah, you can do that off of Admin Tools/Disk Management and in the
>> lower pane select the drive and right-click *Change Drive Letter or
>> Path*.
>>
>> Duane

To the OP. It did it because you left it switched on or attached during
installation - whether there was a disk in it is immaterial. You *MUST*
switch off or disconnect all external drives durning installation.

In answer to your question, no, there is not. You *MUST* perform a clean
installation with the drive disconnected. Don't listen to Duane, he is a
****tard of the 'highest' order and, obviously, has never tried to follow
his own 'advice'. If he had, he would know that Windows would prevent that
course of action as the boot partition *cannot* be remapped without a clean
installation.

Miss Perspicacia Tick

Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote:

> To the OP. It did it because you left it switched on or attached during
> installation - whether there was a disk in it is immaterial. You *MUST*
> switch off or disconnect all external drives durning installation.
>
> In answer to your question, no, there is not. You *MUST* perform a clean
> installation with the drive disconnected. Don't listen to Duane, he is a
> ****tard of the 'highest' order and, obviously, has never tried to follow
> his own 'advice'. If he had, he would know that Windows would prevent that
> course of action as the boot partition *cannot* be remapped without a clean
> installation.

I had that happen too, it's a real pain in the a*se. Can't change
installation drive letter, doesn't work (though some places claim it
does sometimes).

Had to re-format, but this time rather than let the XP installation do
the format (which for some unknown reason turns the C to F), I formatted
with win98se floppy, so I could make sure the disc was definitely set to
C initially. Then let the installation upgrade to NTFS.

Think the problem was something to do with 4 usb ports for external
drives, though the drives were never connected.

aleX

On this great day..Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:38:52 +0545, "Kadaitcha Man"
<nospam@****-off-and-die.com> wrote:

><Duane Arnold, <>, the weak-hinged, mundane galley slave, and
><street entertainer who sings ballads, instructed:
><
><> Paul H wrote:
><>
><>> I recently formatted my HD and reinstalled WinXP. On completion I
><>> found in " My Computer" that my Internal zip drive has been assigned
><>> drive letter C: and my HD has been assigned F:.
><>>
><>> Why the hell Windows XP did this I do not know, there was no zip
><>> disk in the drive during installation. Some programs are behaving
><>> erratically and some are not installing at all, depending on how
><>> well written they were in coping with a system disk other that C:.
><>>
><>> Is there any way I can make my F: drive a C: without reinstalling
><>> windows?
><>>
><>> Thanks
><>>
><>> Paul
><>
><> Yeah, you can do that off of Admin Tools/Disk Management and in the
><> lower pane select the drive and right-click *Change Drive Letter or
><> Path*.
><>
><> Duane
><
><BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA! You techno-****tard idiot. That sort of
><****witted response is typical of you, DUHane. You ****ing know-nothing
><moron.
><
><--
><Thou ingrown toenail. Thou hell-bound.
><

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Mike

Could be Spyware trying to hijack you. Download, install, update and run all
of the following.

Ad-Aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Spybot search and destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/

Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx

If none of the above fixes the issue then download Hijack this, run it, save
a copy of the log file and cut and paste it back here to the group so that
it can be analyzed.

HijackThis
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

--

The moron


Mike wrote:
> After lurking here for a while ... I have decided to ditch
> "uk.rec.humour" and stick with this NG ......... it has raised more
> laughs than any other NG I know ... lol
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
> Pullout "stop" to reply by email

pcbutts1

Actually this is a known issue with Zip drives.

Unfortunatley, you will have to completely reload Windows.

This time, before you install Windows, disconnect the zip drive. I normally
just remove the ribbon cable.

Once the zip drive has been disconnected, do a complete fresh install of
Windows. It should detect your HD as drive C: this time.

Once Windows is installed, turn the system off and recconect the zip drive.
Windows will detect it and all will be fine.

You can use the built-in drive mangement to re-assign any letter to any
volume EXCEPT the boot partition.


"pcbutts1" <> wrote in message
news:1119560120.782cc83492d211011a8ed799525a4e03@t eranews...
> Could be Spyware trying to hijack you. Download, install, update and run
> all
> of the following.
>
> Ad-Aware
> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
>
> Spybot search and destroy
> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
>
> Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx
>
> If none of the above fixes the issue then download Hijack this, run it,
> save
> a copy of the log file and cut and paste it back here to the group so that
> it can be analyzed.
>
> HijackThis
> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
>
> --
>
> The moron
>
>
> Mike wrote:
>> After lurking here for a while ... I have decided to ditch
>> "uk.rec.humour" and stick with this NG ......... it has raised more
>> laughs than any other NG I know ... lol
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Pullout "stop" to reply by email
>
>

Timothy Drouillard

Timothy Drouillard, <>, the eager fribble who pines
for a brawny non-operative transsexual with a stiff one-eyed monk to conduct
excessive bed sports, wrote:

> Actually this is a known issue with Zip drives.
>
> Unfortunatley, you will have to completely reload Windows.
>
> This time, before you install Windows, disconnect the zip drive. I
> normally just remove the ribbon cable.
>
> Once the zip drive has been disconnected, do a complete fresh install
> of Windows. It should detect your HD as drive C: this time.
>
> Once Windows is installed, turn the system off and recconect the zip
> drive. Windows will detect it and all will be fine.
>
> You can use the built-in drive mangement to re-assign any letter to
> any volume EXCEPT the boot partition.

I don't have a zip drive, you ****ing pillock. Got any more bright ideas?

> "pcbutts1" <> wrote in message
> news:1119560120.782cc83492d211011a8ed799525a4e03@t eranews...
>> Could be Spyware trying to hijack you. Download, install, update and
>> run all
>> of the following.
>>
>> Ad-Aware
>> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
>>
>> Spybot search and destroy
>> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
>>
>> Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
>> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...e/default.mspx
>>
>> If none of the above fixes the issue then download Hijack this, run
>> it, save
>> a copy of the log file and cut and paste it back here to the group
>> so that it can be analyzed.
>>
>> HijackThis
>> http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
>>
>> --
>>
>> The moron
>>
>>
>> Mike wrote:
>>> After lurking here for a while ... I have decided to ditch
>>> "uk.rec.humour" and stick with this NG ......... it has raised more
>>> laughs than any other NG I know ... lol
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> Pullout "stop" to reply by email

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