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PROBLEM SOLVED! Reset CMOS Removed/reinstall internal Battery Disconnected USB devices on MOBO Reconfigured Bios Reformat HD RAID Reinstall XP MCE Reconnected USB devices on MOBO Done!

Hi all! I discovered that upon installing Win XP MCE 2005 on my newly built HTPC, the assigned Drive letter for the Boot or System Drive is (H:) instead of (C:). I know that I shouldn't temper with the registry in order to change the Drive letter of a boot drive. This means that I probably have to reformat the HD and reinstall XP. The reason why this happened is that while the initial install, I had a USB Flash disk plugged in. Don't laugh: Because I didn't had a Floppy Drive at hand, I was trying to upload with a flash Disk the Intel RAID driver/controller that XP needed to recognize my SATA RAID HDs!!! ...And of course that didn't worked The resulting effect is that (C:), (D:), (E:) and (F:) where assigned to Removable Media Drives. Drive (G:) was assigned to the Optical DVD Drive. QUESTION: How should I proceed to reformat and reinstall XP MCE with the correct assigned Drive Letters while making sure the system isn't going to repeat the wrong current letter assignment? What's the appropriate way to reformat an active boot Drive? Should I un-RAID it and re-RAID it? Many thanks to who can help.

Actually I found The intel chipset driver in the ASUS motherboard CD. I can probably take it from there. I'll try cleaning up the MCE junk to make it "lighter". In case I am removing functionalities I later need, would I be able to reload them from the orginial MCE CD? many thanks for your help!

Hello all. I'm new to this forum but I though I might ask for a few advices. I'm trying to install Win XP MCE on a new machine I just built but I am having issues: I am missing a RAID driver and Windows Installer won't show me the HD RAID setup. I have DL the appropriate DL Driver but don't have a floppy to upload during the install... So, I have tried using nLite to create a bootable Win MCE CD while including the correct driver but without much success. 1 - The Intel RAID Controller driver doesn't have an .inf file I can choose from 2 - Win XP MCE contains 2 CDs. nLite requests to load both CD 1 and CD 2 during the slipstream CD setup process and resulting into an nLite ISO file larger than a CD can contain and therefore won't burn via Nero So my questions are: A - How can I create a bootable WIN MCE CD that integrates a driver that doesn't have a .inf or .sys file in it while using nLite? B - How can I burn a bootable WIN MCE ISO File that is larger than a normal CD can support? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks and Happy new year!