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| Thread ID: 84884 | 2007-11-21 23:01:00 | What happened and how do I fix it simply | oldun (8465) | Press F1 |
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| 613844 | 2007-11-21 23:01:00 | I decided to do a "routine" rebuild of my System HD designated C: I duly reformatted it etc and proceeded to reinstall windows Xp Prof. All seemed to go well, I suspect that during this boring process I had a little sleep because when I had fiished and had reinstalled many of my programs I noticed that windows had in its wisdom allocated drive Letters to all the USB ports, and the two optical drives lower than my two HD's in the alphabet, which now have theirs as J: for the system disk and the other HD is q:. Ok so it all works well (as ever) but I prefer C: for the system disk and D: for the other HD. I seem to have remembered from the dim past that one can't reallocate the system drive letter, anyone care to elucidate on this. I am using the NTFS file system. |
oldun (8465) | ||
| 613845 | 2007-11-21 23:09:00 | WHATS connected to the USB ports?? If they're something like memory card readers, and USB hdd's, you SHOULD disconnect them BEFORE you reformat. Or what happened, will happen. There must be something connected to the USB ports, it wouldnt happen if there was nothing plugged into them. You maybe able to change the letter for the hdd in disk management. BUT, some programs, since XP has been installed may not load, or run. You may have to reformat and disconnect everything thats plugged into the USB ports. Or if they run by power, turn them off. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 613846 | 2007-11-22 00:37:00 | You're saying the boot drive/partition is now J:? not c:? You must have chosen to delete the partition then, rather than just reformat it. Major hassle to get that fixed form within WIndows, it would be easier to start again. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 613847 | 2007-11-22 05:45:00 | Hi Pctek, Thats what I feared, thanks for your help, I shall remember your advise if I have to do it all again ( I should live that long!!!) |
oldun (8465) | ||
| 613848 | 2007-11-22 06:14:00 | Hi Pctek, Thats what I feared, thanks for your help, I shall remember your advise if I have to do it all again ( I should live that long!!!) Have you tried Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Mangement, Disk Management. ? Do you have one physical hard drive or more than one? Are you using primary and/or extended partitions? I guess so long as the system works you do not need to change. Speedy is correct. Pull all USB devices before formatting and re-installing. This would include printers, Memory cards, external hard drives and etc. Boot off what O/S CD you have and install. Normally you have choices. Once the O/S is installed you load drivers for the hardware normally CDs come with the purchase. Or not! Then install the hardware one step at a time. What do you mean by "Routine"? If you do this on a regular basis then why? Just trying to help. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 613849 | 2007-11-22 16:52:00 | Hi Sweep, I thank you for your suggestions. I have two hard drives. Routine in this case meant "without apparent unusual happenings during the rebuild of the Hard drives" No I do not do this without a very Good reason, I always work on the principal of " if is it is not broken do not fix it". This was caused by a power failure whilst the drives were engaged in doing a routine creation of an image of C: drive to D: drive and it made the c: unreadable and the image was not finished on the d: drive, and no I did not win lotto that week either. I'll get used to things as they are no doubt, after all what is in a name? |
oldun (8465) | ||
| 613850 | 2007-11-22 21:59:00 | This was caused by a power failure whilst the drives were engaged in doing a routine creation of an image of C: drive to D: drive and it made the c: unreadable and the image was not finished on the d: drive, and no I did not win lotto that week either. Well oldun, as humans age they sometimes need a pacemaker in case the lights go out in their ignition system. Computers are the same, power outages turn out the lights so a UPS is a very good investment. I have used them for many years and sometimes wondered why I bothered because they never fired in anger, but in the last two or three years there have been increasing numbers of micro-outages. They are just a blink of the lights, but are enough to trigger the UPS into life (or reboot a computer) so a UPS is now an essential and now I take routine battery replacement very seriously instead of waiting until they die. It is worth thinking about! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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