no disk in drive a error message

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I have recently installed a new hard drive and loaded XP
onto it. My prevoious hd with ME on it is now the slave.
The old drive has retained the c: drive letter and the
new drive has been allocated the F: drive letter.
Whenever I try to start a programme such as AOL or
Championship Manager I get an error message "no dosk in
drive A:" with the options to cancel, try again or
continue. On AOL if I cancel the message disappears after
a couple of tries but with CM it remains and will not
clear. Is this something to do with the drive letter
designation?
 
I have the same problem. I upgraded over the weekend
from ME to XP home. Any time I open up a program or
if on the internet it tries to open a new browser page,
it tries to read the A: drive. I wonder if it has something
to do with the switch from ME that is causing this. Sorry
that I don't have a solution, but hopefully someone else
will.
 
-----Original Message-----
I have recently installed a new hard drive and loaded XP
onto it. My prevoious hd with ME on it is now the slave.
The old drive has retained the c: drive letter and the
new drive has been allocated the F: drive letter.
Whenever I try to start a programme such as AOL or
Championship Manager I get an error message "no dosk in
drive A:" with the options to cancel, try again or
continue. On AOL if I cancel the message disappears after
a couple of tries but with CM it remains and will not
clear. Is this something to do with the drive letter
designation?
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I solved my problem the drastic way. I bought a new hard
drive (I wanted a bigger one for a while anyway) and did
a fresh install of XP. You can do this using the xp upgrade
cd as long as you have a copy of an earlier OS. If you
reformat your hard drive you should have the same effect
I did. Good luck.
 
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