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- Dec 18, 2002
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QUESTION: How do install windows on a system and ensure that my SATA raptor hard drive is both the system and boot drive in disk managment, and prevent my SATA drive from being boot and one of my ATA drive being system?
STORY: I seem to have this problem every time i format and i usually end up formating about 4 times in a day before i remember how i fix the problem. i have tried 3 times so far and i am just sick of it. i have tried installing windows on my 74gb raptor SATA drive while my other 3 HDD are unplugged. i checked drive managment and it said C (raptor) was the system drive, but after restarting with the other 3 drives (1 SATA, 2 ATA) it lables the raptor as Boot and one of my ATA drives as the system drive. for those that dont know the effect this have, essentially windows is fully installed on drive C, but if i unplug and remove drive E (drive labled as "system") my computer wont boot. As such i prefer to have boot and system be the same drive so i dont lose everything if drive E were to die or i for some reason wanted to take it out to put into another computer.
STORY: I seem to have this problem every time i format and i usually end up formating about 4 times in a day before i remember how i fix the problem. i have tried 3 times so far and i am just sick of it. i have tried installing windows on my 74gb raptor SATA drive while my other 3 HDD are unplugged. i checked drive managment and it said C (raptor) was the system drive, but after restarting with the other 3 drives (1 SATA, 2 ATA) it lables the raptor as Boot and one of my ATA drives as the system drive. for those that dont know the effect this have, essentially windows is fully installed on drive C, but if i unplug and remove drive E (drive labled as "system") my computer wont boot. As such i prefer to have boot and system be the same drive so i dont lose everything if drive E were to die or i for some reason wanted to take it out to put into another computer.