Hi Kevin,
The motherboard's primary IDE controller Master drive's first partition becomes the boot drive (c:). Make sure that it's jumper is set to Master and use the cable that is connected to the 3" drive and CD. For it to boot properly the first partition has to be marked active (fdisk.exe).
>I need to know how to change the drive letter of the primary boot drive.
>Using WinXP Pro.
>
>The problem is this. The hard drive crashed. When replaced with a new drive,
>it is showing up as drive E:.
>
>The 3" drive is C:, the CD is D:, and the Hard Drive comes in as E:.
>
>I'v tried removing the CMOS battery, and all drives, and rebooting, no
>help.
>
>The Change Drive Letter dialog won't let me change it because it's the
>boot drive.
>
>Anyone know how to solve this?
Regards,
Mike
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