newbie: drive-letter mixed up

External Since: Apr 21, 2005 Posts: 1

dear gigabyte gurus
i have a new ga-8ipe1000 board with a sata drive (matrox 80gb) attached to
it. during xp (sp2) setup i installed the intel-sata drivers (865) with the
f6-key and the floppy to let xp recognize the drive. after finishing the xp
installation i realised, that xp assigned the driveletter i: to the start-
und systemdrive. internal cardreader, dvd, cdrom have the drive c: d: e:
etc...

what did i wrong. i want my start- und systempartitin to be assigened the
letter c. do i have to change my bios setting for the sata drive ?

thanx for a hint

tim

External Since: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 8

"news.net.lu.ch" <tim.moor.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote:

>dear gigabyte gurus
>i have a new ga-8ipe1000 board with a sata drive (matrox 80gb) attached to
>it. during xp (sp2) setup i installed the intel-sata drivers (865) with the
>f6-key and the floppy to let xp recognize the drive. after finishing the xp
>installation i realised, that xp assigned the driveletter i: to the start-
>und systemdrive. internal cardreader, dvd, cdrom have the drive c: d: e:
>etc...
>
>what did i wrong. i want my start- und systempartitin to be assigened the
>letter c. do i have to change my bios setting for the sata drive ?
>
>thanx for a hint
>
>tim
>
>
>
>
It is very likely that you cannot do this. C: will always be the first
primary partition on the first hard drive (connected to IDE1). As far
as I know, most motherboards will not POST unless there is a drive
connected to IDE1. The only possibility that I can think of is using a
program like Partition Magic (which boots from the CD). Perhaps you
can set the space on IDE1 (and IDE2 is you have a drive there) to
"unallocated" and then create a primary partition the SATA drive.
But why bother with all this? W2K and XP can install to logical
partitions. It really doesn't make any difference what drive letter it
is.
Daryl