I just re-installed a computer with windows XP but i thought i was beeing smart by bying a combined diskette and compact flash reader with the usual floppy connection cable and with USB connector to plug internally directly on the motherboard. My mistake was to install this before i install XP. The results: Now my main drive is drive G because all other drives including my 2 cd-roms are A-F. I knew about this when it asked in the beginning what hard drive i wanted to use for windows, but i figure, hey, that's just a letter. But now, every 5 minutes, windows always tries to access the compact flash drive for whatever the reason and the dialog box takes about 25 clicks on the cancel button to finally accept it, it's pretty annoying. But i solved this, simply by choosing "safely remove hardware" on the lower right icon that was available by windows. The thing is now, the compact flash reader do not work. I also have 2 other usb ports that stopped responding, what the hell is happening ? And i'm not mentionning the programs that refuse to work or install because my main drive is not C. But that's another story. Thank you.

Been there, done that :) I install Windows XP everyday and sometimes for no apparent reason it will set the system drive to a different drive letter then "C". I've tried every solution, but the only thing you can do about it is reformat and reinstall XP. There just isn't another way (that I've found) As for the other drives, you should be able to go into "Administrative Tools" in control panel, choose "Disk management" and change the driver letters for any drive EXCEPT the system drive. Good Luck! Musky If the voices inside my head paid rent, I'd be rich!

Hmm thanks but there's no real use to change the letters if i can't change the system drive since it's the source of my problem. I should have mention that it took me a lot of time installing and configuring all those softwares after windows and i'm really not interested in re-installing everything.

Hmm... Are the drive letters stored in a text file? If so, then it should be easy to boot from a DOS disk and change the file from there, but I'm not sure if they are... :S http://www.boredsource.com/sulfurik/ http://tsfc.ath.cx ftp://tsfc.ath.cx hotline://tsfc.ath.cx Ruffle Mayo says ROFLMAO! :D

Hi Musky, Since you do XP install every day, try this. Install with only one viable partition. That way, it's got no choice. M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

Sorry Mechanix2go, but i have only one hard drive with one partition, and it still use G instead of C. My setup: one diskette drive (A:) One compact-flash/SD miniDrive (C: and D:) 1 DVD burner (E:) 1 DVD-ROM (F:) Maybe if i have installed the compact-flash/SD miniDrive after, it will have been different. Anyway, now it cannot even read the compact flash neither i cannot connect anything new on my usb ports. go figure !!!

Yes Mechanix2go, Most of the time when I'm installing XP, it's to a new unpartitioned drive. I let XP partition and format the drive (NTFS) but every once in a while, for no apparent reason, it will set the system drive to a letter other then C. I have no idea why and it doesn't happen very often, but I install the OS enough to see it occasionally. I just LOVE Windows! :) Musky If the voices inside my head paid rent, I'd be rich!