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Hi Guys:

Well, my hard drive is G and not C and I don;t know what I did wrong or how to fix it. Here's what I did so far:

1. Bolted everything together Intel D975XBX mobo, 2x WD 250 Gb Caviar SE 16, Sony DRU810A DVD Burner, Lite On CD Burner, EVGA 7300 GT Video
Card.

2. Booted to BIOS and enabled RAID
3. Booted into RAID Config and set up RAID 0 according to mobo manual
4. Booted to Windows CD and installed RAID Drivers
5. Booted to Windows CD and partitioned Hard Drive(s)
6. Booted to Windows CD and installed Windows

Now, in My Computer it's showing the Local drive as G: and two removable drives as C: and D: which I think are either the front I/O ports which I had to attach to one USB Header on the mobo and a combo floppy/card reader I attached to the other. But I can't tell as when I click on them it asks me to insert a disk.

1. What did I screw up?
2. How do I fix it?

Thanks a ton for all your help,

Bill

Hi Bill, this is a very odd thing...I've had my windows install goto D: before, but not as far away as G:

Unfortunatly as it is the windows partition, their isn't alot to be done about changing it back to C: Unless there's some 3rd party software that I'm unaware of? (anyone?)

You didn't screw up, it's just windows being stupid...it's picked up the removeable drives as "hard drives" while in the Windows setup, and decided to keep them assigned to those drive letters after windows had been installed.

Having it as G: won't make any difference to day-day operations of your computer, but it should be C:

One definate way of doing it, is reinstalling windows (a pain i know ). But when doing this, find a convetional FDD (floppy disk drive) and install it hanging out the side of your case for the RAID drivers. Unplug the combo reader...and that should install it as C:
Also, only have 1 CD drive installed, the one you'll install windows off.

Ok..stupid question, GaRHaR.... can you no longer just re-assign the drive?Even the HD? Just asking... "knowledge is the basis for all humanity"

Hi Sir Trews, no such thing as stupid questions, only inquisitve minds...god how full of myself am i!?

And yes, you can re-assign drive letters, but windows xp locks the windows partition so it doesn't cause any undue issues with the registry and program files.

Ahh! Ok.... I had heard something of the sort, but in not having had to deal with it directly, didn't know. And full of yerself? Naww!*! Couldn't be!!! This will become a question, I think, if it hasn't already.... without the re-install and designation at that time... can it be done? Changing the drive lettering, I mean.... Not so much for the HD as the CD/DVD's.... ? I know that is a system doesn't know where to look, it just tries to... XP might have dealt with that, but I hear from folks around here who are having similiar troubles.

I'm not too sure to be honest, I used to use software called Partition Magic which could do anything you wanted...I haven't used this for such a long time, but as far as stanard windows software goes...there's no way of doing it that I've ever found.

GaRHaR... real quick... remember the older versions of Windows that wanted you to designate a drive? You are right on unhooking all other drives... make it think there is only one other.... but it moves the .... RAMDRIVE.... thats it... it will move your drive designation up a letter.. and if you already have more than one.. it will move all of them... your 'D' drive will become 'E', etc etc.... again.. don't know if this will make a difference in XP... but the platform really remains the same.. Be well...