Default Drive "F"???

[Raila]

I have been fighting with the kids computer for two days now. It started acting funky when I took out Gator, :kids got whipped for that: from the registry and deleted all the files. Decided to reinstall Win2k on it, and had nothing but problems from that point.

Got an error EVERY time I tried to install it from unable to copy files to getting a BSOD on the start up talking about getting memory dumps, kernel stops, and so on and so forth. Had two drives in it and each drive would give me a different set of errors when I tried to install from CD.

Finally said screw it, put the bigger drive into my main machine slaved, installed Win 2K to it THAT way, and it went fine.

Put it back into the other machine, and got error after error talking about WinNT stopping it with NT Auth/System halting the startup cause of error 128 with an abnormal stop of a file and so on and so forth..
went on and on, tried booting from disk I made off this puter, and it would fail or give me the BSOD again..

Even took out the AGP GeForce, and put a stinky S3Virge back in thinking it was the VIA not liking the AGP on the board, tried to update the Bios to a damn beta driver, but couldnt GET to anything TO update it cause it only works in DOS, and havent the slightest how to get to True DOS in Win2k Yet...

Had been sitting at SCREAM status for about 35 hours now...

Called my husband over, wanting to show him the damn errors that kept popping up, and the freaking thing loaded fine with him standing there, and added it to the network with nO probs.

::shrugs:: He says it was cause of his Jeff Gordon shirt and hat.. ::giggles::

AAAAAAANYWAy...

The damn drive now says its the same drive letter as it was in THIS computer.

F!!!

Course, I cant install anything to it for updates or anything like that cause its not default C:.

Any ideas on how to get this to change? Or do I have to make another partition for Windows, copy the files over, and then restart agian with it being a small set partition?

Because the Disk Management utility tells me I CANT edit the system setup for it cause its the "root", even tho its NOT the right stinking one!!

::is still confused as to WHY it just started working::

orrrrrrrrrrrrr...
I could just copy all the files from the "F" drive over to the 10 gigger I had as the main drive and the 20 gig as the secondary and it can KEEP the "F" designation.
Hrm.

Any ideas?

To Be or Not to be... DAMN but that is confusing!

 

[Raila]

oh..

It will boot from the floppy startup, but wont from standard setup aside from the bood disk. Says there was a configuration error with the drives..

NO )#($!!

BLAH!

To Be or Not to be... DAMN but that is confusing!

 

[Raila]

cripes
now it wont boot at all again

::sighs and goes back to formatting the drives in this machine aaaaaaaagain::

To Be or Not to be... DAMN but that is confusing!

 

[jjchen330ci]

well, I am new at win2000, too. About your first post, I would think the problem is your memory, it happen a lot at the computer shop I work during the weekend. hard drive error when you try to install os on it. but when you change to other system. everything is fine. however, when you bring it back to the inital system, error again. so I decide to replace the memory... guess what everything is fine.

your second post, I have the same problem, like I said I am new at the win2000, the first time I install the win2000 I end up with C80GB IDE fat32), D: (SCSI 9.1GB NTFS with OS on it), E: (SCSI 9.1GB NTFT), F: SCSI CDROM, G: SCSI CD-RW.

I don't know how to change the drive letter, I don't think it is possible. I end up unplug the 80GB IDE first and install the OS again. after everything is setup. then I plug the IDE back into the system.

but, guess what.. I have C: as SCSI 9.1, D: and E: as CD-rom, F: as SCSI 9.1 and 80GB IDE as G:
AAAAAHHHH !!!! I want to kill someone, why can the system just be C,D,E as hard drive and F, G as cdrom.

well, I guess I can live with this configuration for now. let me know if you ever find out how to reassign the drive letter.

JJ CHEN

 

[Raila]

Here is how to change the Drive LEtter...

<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q223188" target="_new">HOW TO: Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows</A>

BUT

<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q223769" target="_new">Cannot Change System Volume Drive Letter After Setup</A>


Once I changed it, I got a Pagefile.sys error that wouldnt let me log in on this computer into Windows.

It wont boot at ALL on the kids system to even get me to the failed login area.

Even tried deleting it when it was slaved to this drive to see if it would work, but it still won't load on their system.

I have some other memory that we had in it before, but its a pretty new stick of 256...

May have to get ahold of Micron and tell them the stick failed if it loads with the other mem...

will change back to the other memory and see if that loads..

Good luck with the drives though.
I would check around in the Windows help files where I got those links from. I DID see stuff about adding scsi drives, and removable media changing the drive letter setup.

Good luck again!!


To Be or Not to be... DAMN but that is confusing!

 

[Raila]

::sigh::
no go.

does exactly the same thing with the other memory.

Gets past the Windows start then as soon as it hits the splash screen with the Windows is Starting, it does this weird... slide up with a blue background treplaced by the Start up screen, and it freezes before the starting bar moves across the bottom at all.

I think it may be my bios... but I have no frigging clue at this point. It works on another system, but the drive wont boot in that one, EITHER drive.

Am even considering going back into Win95 and seeing if it even starts
::sighs::

Anyone have ANY ideas?
Could the processor be toast? Could it be the damn Motherboard and/or bios??
Because its obviously not the memory, the vid card, or the hard drive.

Im at a loss here.

To Be or Not to be... DAMN but that is confusing!