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Changing Drive Letters with SATA/ IDE

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Indyxc1

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Forgive me if this is obvious, I searched around for a bit, but so far setting up my first AMD system has been frustrating.


Anyway, the relavent setup
DFI SLI-D
Opteron 148

1 IDE 160 GB HD IDE
1 CD-RW IDE
1 74 GB RAPTOR SATA

It detects everything fine in bios. But it defaults the 74 GB raptor to E, and I want it to be my main drive. I installed x64 on it, and it boots from it fine, but I want it to be C.

Thanks
 
Change the boot order in the BIOS. Also make sure that none of the drives have partitions on then before the install. This can cause problems sometimes.
 
I'm not sure I follow.

I have the Raptor set on higher priority than the ide drive. And it boots windows off of it just fine, but it's drive "e" I want to move it to C.

And as far as boot order, I can only select "hard drive" not specific devices.

Thanks
 
Right click 'My Computer' Then manage. Look for disk managment. Pick that selection..

Right click the drive you need to mod the letter. The option to change the drive letter and paths should be there. You might have to swap around letters at first to get the right letters to suite your needs.
 
Thanks for the reply.

But it tells me Windows can't modify my system volume or boot volume.

Hmm. Maybe disconnect the IDE, install windows, and then reconnect it?
 
Ok, I was wrong, the Raptor wasn't the top priority HD. It was the 160gb. So I switched it to the Raptor, and now it won't boot windows. Says disk boot failure.

So I tried to..

disconnected the 160GB drive, and it recognizes the Raptor, but won't boot into widnows. Loads NVIDIA boot agent, and disk boot failure.

When I switch the CDROM to boot off that, it still loads the NVIDIA agent.

Does the DFI need an SATA driver in installed in DOS to boot from a SATA drive?
 
I wouldn't change the Windows boot/system drive letter. Alot of things are coded to use E: via registry.. Though I heard Partition Magic could do it but I would just start over and reformat it as C: I would just disconnect the pata (160gb) drive and leave ONLY the boot sata hard drive hooked up along with the cdroms and install windows. Once XP is fully installed, hook that pata drive back up. Just wished the fdisk in xp setup has more control on letter assignments.
 
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