Help! New hard drive is showing as E

[imdarren]

Newbie here.

I installed a new Seagate 8MB SATA 200 Gig and ran XP Pro SP2.

I forgot to unplaug my digi camera card reader before the HDD format XP install.

Now windows shows My HDD as drive letter E!

I want it to be C

Whats the CORRECT way to redo this?

I don't know how the correct way to re format my HDD with win XP and no floppy.

I only have a CD.

Please help the newbie out.

Thanks!

Darren

[trackrat]

How did you install the SATA drivers as they normally come on a floppy?.

[Chris]

You cannot change the letter of the boot drive nor can you change any other drive letter to that of the drive letter of the boot drive.*

I'm assuming of course your boot drive is C and this drive letter is already taken...

Can you please go to start, run and type:

diskmgmt.msc

Click ok and capture the screen and post the image in your next to post so we can see your drive config.

*Without risky reg editing that could fail.

[imdarren]

I did not load any SATA drivers.

Maybe this is my problem?

I wasn't planning on having a floppy on my new computer.

By boot drive is my CD / DVD, its D drive.

Maybe Is what I need to do is reformat my drive, and start over?

I'm no good at the re format thing. I may need some help with that if it comes to that.

Here is a screen capture.

[trackrat]

I do not now if this will work for you but this is how a friend did it .

Was to boot up first with a W98 bootdisk, run FDISK to create the partition and make it active....and then shut down. As it booted back up, I got into the bios and changed the boot sequence to show cdrom instead and used the XP cd to boot with.

Although I was given the option to press F6 to install the drivers, I didn't...and the drive still showed up as an option to install XP to at the next screen. XP then formatted the drive as NTFS and installed to it......

Once I was at the desktop with whatever generic drivers XP installed, I used the motherboard cd to install the SATA drivers and everything else that needed to be installed for the board itself prior to installing any other drivers (I just kept cancelling installations for things like the modem, sound, etc. until everything for the board was done and rebooted).

As long as your bios has the SATA controllers enabled ahead of time, this wasn't difficult to do and I didn't have the drivers on a floppy disk ahead of time. I didn't realize that was an option to be honest until somebody else posted in here that it was....I assumed that I would be asked for the drivers at some point during the installation and would be able to use the motherboard cd. When that didn't happen, XP installed generic enough to get me up and running at least.