master hd is being set as F:??

I have a similar issue. I dual boot Win 98 and 2000. After I installed a
larger HD and used PM 8 to partition it, then Ghost 2003 to image the old
drive to the newer larger HD, that became C-as desired. BUT, when I booted
into Win 98 and used Drivemapper in PM 4 to fix some drive letter problems
there, and later rebooted into 2000, C had become F, along with other drive
letters that got messed up. Fortunately, only a few of my programs got
confused by the change. BTW, my drives are F,G.H and C,D,E (smaller drive).
Peter Cowie

"FayeC" wrote in message
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I posted a while ago about some computer problems. I ended up taking the
computer to be checked at the store where I got it upgraded 5 months ago
and
they diagnosed a bad master hd.
I brought the computer home and right now I am trying to install Windows
XP
on an old 4.5 GB hd I had sitting here.
The hd is correctly jumped as master and I have a bigger hd as slave (I
have
all my backup files, work, documents saved and organized in the bigger
hd).
I used FDISK and deleted the fat32 partition from the old 4GB hd and
allowed
windows to detect the hd as master and to format it in NTFS.
The problem is that windows is installing and setting the master hd as F:
and not as C:.
This happened to me before and I just can't remember how I solved the
problem. I think I removed the slave hd and reformatted and installed
Windows again but for the life of me I can't be sure.
What can cause Windows to see the master as F: and how to solve this
problem? I know you can't change the letter of the system hd in windows.
Any
other options?

Any help is appreciated,

FayeC

I wouldn't convert from fat32 to ntfs after installing XP. I'd install it to
a fat 32 partition and select ntfs in the install.

The latter gave me much better results than the former.


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I use bootitng to partition and boot to partitions and haven't had the
problem yet.


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