Q: I recently had to RMA my hard drive, so when I got back I had to reinstall xp. I went through the installation, but when I boot into Windows I have the following in my computer:
a: floppy
c: zip drive
d: CD drive
e: Windows installation
I also noticed that when I am in Windows Explorer, the folder icons have disappeared, that usually go along the side of the folder name. I ruined a plant, or is this sort of thing normally when working with Microsoft products? Even when I try my motherboard drivers from the CD manufacturer, it gives me an error that can not read some of the files, and install the driver gui is empty. I can install the drivers one by one, but I would like to know if its even worth my time when I screwed up installation. Im not sure if I should try again to get my Windows installation to the c: drive, or maybe just life. Any help would be great. Here are my system specs: GeForce FX5900 motherboard
PNY
EPoX 8RDA3 + nForce2 128 MB
AMD XP 2500 + Barton, Corsair XMS ocd to 3200 GB
1 3200
Maxtor 120GB SATA 24x HDD
Liteon cdrw
100MB ZIP drive
Mitsumi Floppy
450W PSU
TIA
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Re:It's not really "weird", it's just that if you didn't have a partitioned drive in there, it already assigned drive letters to the other things before you created it.
XP just doesn't have the "attachment" to the letter C that most users seem to have developed over the years. It doesn't matter what letter it is.
What do you mean by the icons in your my computer display. Have you tried switching to different views to see if they look more familiar to you?
Not be able to run the setup from the CD wouldn't have anything to do with a botched install. More likely a bad disc or drive problem (drive prob not likely since you read the rest of the disc to do manual installs).
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
I ended up just unplugging everything except for my hdd and cdrom, then I messed around with the BIOS for a little bit and everything seems to be working.
XP Setup has some strange behaviors when assigning drive letters. I usually do the same thing you did: disconnect any IDE devices except for my target install drive and my CD-ROM drive, run XP setup, then reconnect the drives.
It's not strange behaviors per-se. Windows doesnt care what drive letters are assigned to anything (and you can reassign all but the system drive with the disk management snap-in), the drive letters are there mostly for legacy support (applications that require their presence).
The icon display is a little odd, but I dont think it in-and-of itself is a good indicator as to if you've messed up the installation or not.
My big question is why on earth did you install your OS with your CPU OC'd?
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
I ended up just unplugging everything except for my hdd and cdrom, then I messed around with the BIOS for a little bit and everything seems to be working.
XP Setup has some strange behaviors when assigning drive letters. I usually do the same thing you did: disconnect any IDE devices except for my target install drive and my CD-ROM drive, run XP setup, then reconnect the drives.
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Re:I ended up just unplugging everything except for my hdd and cdrom, then I messed around with the BIOS for a little bit and everything seems to be working.
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Re:Huh, don't know how this could happen. Are the cables connected correctly? Jumper settings on the drives correct? It almost looks like the machine is calling your zip a master and your hard drive a slave…
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