Can't change drive letter, seek suggestions

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My main drive is a SATA drive which is partitioned into drive C and D. C
being the OS boot drive and D is just for data. I also have an IDE drive
that I use for backups. In Disk Management, the SATA drive (C & D) is Disk 1
while the IDE drive is Disk 0.
I just reinstalled my XP Pro but now I can't change my IDE drive's letter.
It tells me that Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system
volume or boot volume. I was able to specify a drive letter for this disk
before but why not now?
 
tiki2k said:
My main drive is a SATA drive which is partitioned into drive C and D. C
being the OS boot drive and D is just for data. I also have an IDE drive
that I use for backups. In Disk Management, the SATA drive (C & D) is Disk 1
while the IDE drive is Disk 0.
I just reinstalled my XP Pro but now I can't change my IDE drive's letter.
It tells me that Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system
volume or boot volume. I was able to specify a drive letter for this disk
before but why not now?
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You write "I just reinstalled my XP Pro" but you don't tell us where
you installed it to. Which drive letter? And what drive letter is you
IDE drive?
 
When you reinstalled, you had the IDE drive a the priority drive in the boot
sequence (intentionally, or system assigned) and therefore you have
installed the boot files on that drive. Copy the boot files to your OS
drive, change the priority in the BIOS and if you can't boot, use recovery
console to build a new boot.ini file with the proper addressing of your OS
in it. Make sure that your OS is on the active partition of the SATA drive.
 
Oh sorry, I reinstalled into the same drive. Drive C of the SATA drive. I
disconnected the IDE drive during the reinstall to keep it as simple ap.
 
When I reinstalled, I disconnected the IDE drive or else Windows
automatically assigned it as C. Then when everything is set, I reconnected
it. The bios setting hasn't changed either.
 
You're right. It turns out that the Boot sequence was IDE then SATA in the
BIOS. After switching that, I was able to change the drive letter. Thank you
 
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