I just bought a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus harddisk (80GB) with came with a Ultra ATA/133 card. I have 2 harddisks, one CD-Rom and one CD-RW in my computer. That means that if I wanna use the new harddisk I need to install the Ultra ATA card. Well..I did and I connect the new HD and one of my old HD to this card. Then I try to install windows xp on the new 80GB HD, but I figure out that it's not the C drive. My computer regonizes it as the D drive and the original HD on the Motherboard is still drive C. I've already set the BIOS so that it boots the SCSI drive first. And escept for the new 80GB HD, the two old HDs have already been set to as SLAVE drivers. I'm just wondering if there is a way so the computer will recongize my new HD on the Ultra ATA card as Drive C? Thanks you for helping me!! ^______^

Use fdisk to fix the problem. Fdisk work UNDER DOS ONLY!!! so you might need a windows 98 startup floopy disk.

To Ryan Do you mean that I need to format all of my HD? Is there a way that I don't need to format them because I want the data inside those OLD HDs.

you don't have to format your hd don't worry. if you have windows 98 startup disk, *you know what that is right?" boot up from floopy disk and run fdisk and set your drive to primary. its hard to explain it to you but you cna contact me if you have aim my aim sn is windshadow2001 and icq is 64821667

Thanks Ryan, I'm going to give it a try!! hehe...Thank You for your help!!!^___^!!

Those cards are supposed to run in addition to the bios just like SCSI, but if there is a conflict you can disable the bios drive in the bios and the controller drive will become C:. Also you could just take the power plug loose on the bios drive and the controller card master drive would become C:. You will have to find the conflict to run all three drives at the same time. Perhaps tech support at the controller manufacturer can help. The slave drive in the BIOS may always boot before the Controller master drive unless it is disabled. (You mention BIOS, ATA Controller and SCSI drives. How many drives are involved here? I have a setup like that but I only try to run one drive at a time)