Installation Drive Path

[Jerry N]

I have installed XP using NLite on a Gateway MT6919 laptop. It has a memory card reader for which there is no option to disable in BIOS. My installation drive is a 320 GB with a single partition.

After the install, the boot hard drive drive is assigned drive E, and the memory card reader is assigned as drive C.

Is there any way to force the NLite installation to designate the boot hard drive as drive C? Perhaps is there an option during installation that I am missing?

Is it possible to change the main boot hard drive designation to "Drive C" after the installation? The "Disk Management" tool in Computer management will not allow changing the designation of the boot drive.

I have several older programs that will only unpack and install on "Drive C", so, of course, they bomb out with my present configuration.

Thank you

Jerry N

Edited May 20, 2009 by Jerry N

[qiqi1021]

I think the problem might be XP loading driver for the card reader before it reaches the actual installation stage. Removing the driver from CD could resolve it but I'm not completely sure.

[johnhc]

Jerry N, to change your boot drive requires editing your BIOS. I know of no nLite options to specify the drive letter or boot order in nLite. There have been discussions here some time ago about drive letter assignment, so searching might be useful. Good luck, John.

[Siginet]

There are 2 ways I get around this. Either disconnect the media card reader from the motherboard until you finish installing XP. Or once you create a partition to install to in xp and it makes it E:\. You usually can restart the computer and begin a new install and the drive will be recognized as C:\. This is because your first patition is now allready created so it sees it as C:\.

[boooggy]

jerry

go to regedit and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

and delete all entries except the default one. then restart. i hope it will work for u