postal64 Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 (edited) 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. Edited December 31, 2006 by postal64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postal64 Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 PROBLEM SOLVED!Reset CMOSRemoved/reinstall internal BatteryDisconnected USB devices on MOBOReconfigured BiosReformat HD RAIDReinstall XP MCEReconnected USB devices on MOBODone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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