Dell Inspiron mini 10V

It's a mini notebook. The hard drive was shot. I installed a new one.
I'm using a Dell XP Home restore CD to restore it.

After XP installed, the hard drive comes up as drive E:
There's no CD drive in it so I'm using an external one to install. It shows
up as D: What is showing up as C: is a "Removable Disk".
In Device Manager it's called a Generic- Multi-Card USB Device.
In reality it is a built in card reader.
There's no trace of it in BIOS. If I disable legacy USB support then I
can't boot off the CD.
Back into installation again. I have deleted the existing Windows partition
(that I just installed) and am now down to Unpartitioned Space and "Unknown
Disk" followed by "(There is no disk in this drive)"

Basically, I want the hard drive to come up as C: That's the way it was
before and that's the way I want it now.

Surely there's an easier way than taking the thing apart and disconnecting
the card reader. With my luck, it'd probably still show up anyway.

I am starting over again at this moment, but I haven't changed anything and
I don't expect anything different.

Ideas?

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Menno Hershberger wrote in
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It's a mini notebook. The hard drive was shot. I installed a new one.
I'm using a Dell XP Home restore CD to restore it.

After XP installed, the hard drive comes up as drive E:
There's no CD drive in it so I'm using an external one to install. It
shows up as D: What is showing up as C: is a "Removable Disk".
In Device Manager it's called a Generic- Multi-Card USB Device.
In reality it is a built in card reader.
There's no trace of it in BIOS. If I disable legacy USB support then I
can't boot off the CD.
Back into installation again. I have deleted the existing Windows
partition (that I just installed) and am now down to Unpartitioned
Space and "Unknown Disk" followed by "(There is no disk in this
drive)"

Basically, I want the hard drive to come up as C: That's the way it
was before and that's the way I want it now.

Surely there's an easier way than taking the thing apart and
disconnecting the card reader. With my luck, it'd probably still show
up anyway.

I am starting over again at this moment, but I haven't changed
anything and I don't expect anything different.

OK. Scratch that one. The second time around it turned up as C drive!

All I've got left now is an Unknown Device I haven't figured out yet. I'll
try to Google my way through that one.

If not.... I'll be back! :-)



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Menno Hershberger wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote in
news:XnsA02CF08D0D43Bbutter@wefb973cbe498:

It's a mini notebook. The hard drive was shot. I installed a new one.
I'm using a Dell XP Home restore CD to restore it.

After XP installed, the hard drive comes up as drive E:
There's no CD drive in it so I'm using an external one to install. It
shows up as D: What is showing up as C: is a "Removable Disk".
In Device Manager it's called a Generic- Multi-Card USB Device.
In reality it is a built in card reader.
There's no trace of it in BIOS. If I disable legacy USB support then I
can't boot off the CD.
Back into installation again. I have deleted the existing Windows
partition (that I just installed) and am now down to Unpartitioned
Space and "Unknown Disk" followed by "(There is no disk in this
drive)"

Basically, I want the hard drive to come up as C: That's the way it
was before and that's the way I want it now.

Surely there's an easier way than taking the thing apart and
disconnecting the card reader. With my luck, it'd probably still show
up anyway.

I am starting over again at this moment, but I haven't changed
anything and I don't expect anything different.

OK. Scratch that one. The second time around it turned up as C drive!

All I've got left now is an Unknown Device I haven't figured out yet. I'll
try to Google my way through that one.

If not.... I'll be back! :-)

One site mentions:

"The only unknown device was the battery driver and I downloaded the
Mini 10v XP driver from the Dell website which worked fine. I also
installed the Synaptics touchpad driver from the Dell website to
enable scrolling to work."

I'd take a skim through the Dell drivers, and see which ones you haven't
got yet.

HTH,
Paul

Paul wrote in :

Menno Hershberger wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote in
news:XnsA02CF08D0D43Bbutter@wefb973cbe498:

It's a mini notebook. The hard drive was shot. I installed a new
one. I'm using a Dell XP Home restore CD to restore it.

After XP installed, the hard drive comes up as drive E:
There's no CD drive in it so I'm using an external one to install.
It shows up as D: What is showing up as C: is a "Removable Disk".
In Device Manager it's called a Generic- Multi-Card USB Device.
In reality it is a built in card reader.
There's no trace of it in BIOS. If I disable legacy USB support then
I can't boot off the CD.
Back into installation again. I have deleted the existing Windows
partition (that I just installed) and am now down to Unpartitioned
Space and "Unknown Disk" followed by "(There is no disk in this
drive)"

Basically, I want the hard drive to come up as C: That's the way it
was before and that's the way I want it now.

Surely there's an easier way than taking the thing apart and
disconnecting the card reader. With my luck, it'd probably still
show up anyway.

I am starting over again at this moment, but I haven't changed
anything and I don't expect anything different.

OK. Scratch that one. The second time around it turned up as C drive!

All I've got left now is an Unknown Device I haven't figured out yet.
I'll try to Google my way through that one.

If not.... I'll be back! :-)

One site mentions:

"The only unknown device was the battery driver and I downloaded
the
Mini 10v XP driver from the Dell website which worked fine. I also
installed the Synaptics touchpad driver from the Dell website to
enable scrolling to work."

I'd take a skim through the Dell drivers, and see which ones you
haven't got yet.

It was "Dell Battery Meter/Wireless Select Switch".

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On 4/6/2012 6:28 PM, Menno Hershberger wrote:
wrote in :

Menno Hershberger wrote:
Menno wrote in
news:XnsA02CF08D0D43Bbutter@wefb973cbe498:

It's a mini notebook. The hard drive was shot. I installed a new
one. I'm using a Dell XP Home restore CD to restore it.

After XP installed, the hard drive comes up as drive E:
There's no CD drive in it so I'm using an external one to install.
It shows up as D: What is showing up as C: is a "Removable Disk".
In Device Manager it's called a Generic- Multi-Card USB Device.
In reality it is a built in card reader.
There's no trace of it in BIOS. If I disable legacy USB support then
I can't boot off the CD.
Back into installation again. I have deleted the existing Windows
partition (that I just installed) and am now down to Unpartitioned
Space and "Unknown Disk" followed by "(There is no disk in this
drive)"

Basically, I want the hard drive to come up as C: That's the way it
was before and that's the way I want it now.

Surely there's an easier way than taking the thing apart and
disconnecting the card reader. With my luck, it'd probably still
show up anyway.

I am starting over again at this moment, but I haven't changed
anything and I don't expect anything different.

OK. Scratch that one. The second time around it turned up as C drive!

All I've got left now is an Unknown Device I haven't figured out yet.
I'll try to Google my way through that one.

If not.... I'll be back! :-)

One site mentions:

"The only unknown device was the battery driver and I downloaded
the
Mini 10v XP driver from the Dell website which worked fine. I also
installed the Synaptics touchpad driver from the Dell website to
enable scrolling to work."

I'd take a skim through the Dell drivers, and see which ones you
haven't got yet.

It was "Dell Battery Meter/Wireless Select Switch".


If I recall correctly, you an even uninstall the utility after you have
installed it, and the driver bit will stay behind. There's really no
reason to do that, but just a bit of trivia for you.

Grinder wrote in
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On 4/6/2012 6:28 PM, Menno Hershberger wrote:
wrote in :

Menno Hershberger wrote:
Menno wrote in
news:XnsA02CF08D0D43Bbutter@wefb973cbe498:

It's a mini notebook. The hard drive was shot. I installed a new
one. I'm using a Dell XP Home restore CD to restore it.

After XP installed, the hard drive comes up as drive E:
There's no CD drive in it so I'm using an external one to install.
It shows up as D: What is showing up as C: is a "Removable Disk".
In Device Manager it's called a Generic- Multi-Card USB Device.
In reality it is a built in card reader.
There's no trace of it in BIOS. If I disable legacy USB support
then
I can't boot off the CD.
Back into installation again. I have deleted the existing Windows
partition (that I just installed) and am now down to Unpartitioned
Space and "Unknown Disk" followed by "(There is no disk in this
drive)"

Basically, I want the hard drive to come up as C: That's the way it
was before and that's the way I want it now.

Surely there's an easier way than taking the thing apart and
disconnecting the card reader. With my luck, it'd probably still
show up anyway.

I am starting over again at this moment, but I haven't changed
anything and I don't expect anything different.

OK. Scratch that one. The second time around it turned up as C
drive!

All I've got left now is an Unknown Device I haven't figured out
yet.
I'll try to Google my way through that one.

If not.... I'll be back! :-)

One site mentions:

"The only unknown device was the battery driver and I downloaded
the
Mini 10v XP driver from the Dell website which worked fine. I
also
installed the Synaptics touchpad driver from the Dell website to
enable scrolling to work."

I'd take a skim through the Dell drivers, and see which ones you
haven't got yet.

It was "Dell Battery Meter/Wireless Select Switch".


If I recall correctly, you an even uninstall the utility after you have
installed it, and the driver bit will stay behind. There's really no
reason to do that, but just a bit of trivia for you.

Interesting :-)
I'll try to remember and try that on the *next* one!

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