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boot drive letter changed itis mess
Name: guyen Date: January 19, 2009 at 22:50:21 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: P AMD X25000+ Product: Custom / CUSTOM Subcategory: Configurations
Comment:
Hi guys, on my XP system, the boot drive on which the XP is installed is supposed to be C, but recently I unplugged my second HDD and booted and plugged it back and boot again, boom, the second non-boot drive partitions (3 of them) has claimed the C, D, E and now my primary boot drive is assigned F and so on. How could I possibly assign it back to C? I have entered the BIOs setup and set the boot drive to be the first one and Computer Management Drive Manager shows the Disk 0 to be my boot drive but still drive letters starts from F instead of C. Please help. Thansk!
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