P4P800-E Hard drive install letter designation

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Hi

I just installed a new harddrive and it came up as drive letter I. I want it
to be C. I have a cd and dvd burner and a card reader installed to the
internal USB connections. The card reader takes four letters, C, D, E, F,
and the CD is G and DVD is H.

How can I reassign the boot drive to C. Additionally I have a second HD (not
installed yet) that I would like to designate to letter D.

Thanks!!!
 
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Unconnect everything except for the new drive, then format it and install
windows. Then connect the rest of the drives up one at a time and reboot
between each new connection. Dawg


"Martin Hirsch" <martinhirschREMOVEspam@cox.net> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I just installed a new harddrive and it came up as drive letter I. I want
> it
> to be C. I have a cd and dvd burner and a card reader installed to the
> internal USB connections. The card reader takes four letters, C, D, E, F,
> and the CD is G and DVD is H.
>
> How can I reassign the boot drive to C. Additionally I have a second HD
> (not
> installed yet) that I would like to designate to letter D.
>
> Thanks!!!
>
>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

Martin Hirsch wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just installed a new harddrive and it came up as drive letter I. I want it
> to be C. I have a cd and dvd burner and a card reader installed to the
> internal USB connections. The card reader takes four letters, C, D, E, F,
> and the CD is G and DVD is H.
>
> How can I reassign the boot drive to C. Additionally I have a second HD (not
> installed yet) that I would like to designate to letter D.
>
> Thanks!!!
>
>

You need to make the primary partition on the new drive 'active'. This
can be done with FDisk, run from your boot diskette.

Good luck,

Steven
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (More info?)

When you set this Hd in the bios as first HD and you boot from the Windows
CD than this HD must be C.
After install a clean windows you can assign all the drive letters you want
with the manage optine ( right click on my computer )

"Steven Hilgendorf" <stevenmhPLEASE@REMOVEwi.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Martin Hirsch wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I just installed a new harddrive and it came up as drive letter I. I want
>> it
>> to be C. I have a cd and dvd burner and a card reader installed to the
>> internal USB connections. The card reader takes four letters, C, D, E, F,
>> and the CD is G and DVD is H.
>>
>> How can I reassign the boot drive to C. Additionally I have a second HD
>> (not
>> installed yet) that I would like to designate to letter D.
>>
>> Thanks!!!
>>
>>
>
> You need to make the primary partition on the new drive 'active'. This
> can be done with FDisk, run from your boot diskette.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Steven