Question about new HD installed.

[rainz]

Hi,

I have installed a new HD 120GB in my comp. I have in my comp

40GB = C:
60GB = D:
120GB = G: <-- New HD installed ... Should be E: And i want it E:
CDRom = E:
CD-RW = F:

This is pissing me off hard ! Anyways to set the 120 GB to E: and the 2 CDroms F: G: ? w/o removing any parts in the comp ?

Prolly works if i remove the 2 CDroms and reboot and replace the cdroms .. but i'm sure i can w/o removing anything under Windows XP HE ..

And i dont care for all my programs installed with the wrong CDrom set in the REG ... i use a NOCD for everything ..

If someone has any clue !

Tnx

RainZ

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

1. Go to the start menu
2. Right click on "my computer"
3. Select "manage"
4. Choose "Storage -> disk management" from the left pane
5. Right-click on the volumes you want to change on the right pane
6. Select "Change driver letter and paths".
7. Change the drive letters.

 

[rainz]

woot ! Tnx man highly appreciated !

RainZ

 

[epicstruggle]

i wouldnt recommend having such a large partition. Ive had a hard drive fail and would have total data loss, if it wasnt for the 3 partitions, only lost 1/3 of my data instead of the whole thing.

later,
epic

 

[Sage]

i wouldnt recommend having such a large partition. Ive had a hard drive fail and would have total data loss, if it wasnt for the 3 partitions, only lost 1/3 of my data instead of the whole thing.

later,
epic

I am putting aside money to order some new harddrives and am going to be using a 320GB partition. The trick is to use a RAID array so that youll always have your data somewhere.

 

[CI]

If it's any useful to you... I always set my CD-Writer and CD-ROM to Y: and Z: drive immediately after OS installation so it wouldn't muck up my drive order.

 

[zurich]

Is there any way to change the drive letter of the boot/system HD? Mine is stuck as F:

 

[epicstruggle]

I am putting aside money to order some new harddrives and am going to be using a 320GB partition. The trick is to use a RAID array so that youll always have your data somewhere.

Im planning on doing something similar very soon too.
4x250GB HDs in a raid 1, giving me a total of 500GB. Im hoping to find a motherboard with 4 sata and onboard raid.

later,
epic

 

[epicstruggle]

Is there any way to change the drive letter of the boot/system HD? Mine is stuck as F:

Had the same problem, and couldnt figure out how to change it either. I just reinstalled windows (had to do it for other reasons).

later,
epic

 

[Sage]

I am putting aside money to order some new harddrives and am going to be using a 320GB partition. The trick is to use a RAID array so that youll always have your data somewhere.

Im planning on doing something similar very soon too.
4x250GB HDs in a raid 1, giving me a total of 500GB. Im hoping to find a motherboard with 4 sata and onboard raid.

later,
epic

I assume you mean RAID 0+1 / 10 ? that's what I'm going to do but with PATA drives.

 

[PaulS]

Is there any way to change the drive letter of the boot/system HD? Mine is stuck as F:

Had the same problem, and couldnt figure out how to change it either. I just reinstalled windows (had to do it for other reasons).

Remember folks - where possible, remove all the hard-disks apart from the one you're installing Windows on. Then it'll go onto C:

 

[epicstruggle]

I am putting aside money to order some new harddrives and am going to be using a 320GB partition. The trick is to use a RAID array so that youll always have your data somewhere.

Im planning on doing something similar very soon too.
4x250GB HDs in a raid 1, giving me a total of 500GB. Im hoping to find a motherboard with 4 sata and onboard raid.

later,
epic

I assume you mean RAID 0+1 / 10 ? that's what I'm going to do but with PATA drives.

hmm... actually i mean raid 1. However both raid 1 and raid 0+1 will give me a total of 500gb of space given 4 250gb HDs.

as you can see from above pics, raid 1 does do what i said.

later,
epic

 

[Sage]

I am putting aside money to order some new harddrives and am going to be using a 320GB partition. The trick is to use a RAID array so that youll always have your data somewhere.

Im planning on doing something similar very soon too.
4x250GB HDs in a raid 1, giving me a total of 500GB. Im hoping to find a motherboard with 4 sata and onboard raid.

later,
epic

I assume you mean RAID 0+1 / 10 ? that's what I'm going to do but with PATA drives.

hmm... actually i mean raid 1. However both raid 1 and raid 0+1 will give me a total of 500gb of space given 4 250gb HDs...

right, I just assumed that you would use Raid 0+1 since you have lots of speed to gain and nothing to loose.

 

[epicstruggle]

right, I just assumed that you would use Raid 0+1 since you have lots of speed to gain and nothing to loose.

after reading a more detailed explanation about the different raid's raid 0+1 seems quite a bit better. Now the problem is finding a good mb that has it built in.

later,
epic

 

[Sage]

I suggest a Highpoint controller. They ar pretty common for use on motherboards, as well as reasonably priced add in boards