boxturt Posted November 14, 2004 Posted November 14, 2004 I just installed windows XP Pro into a brand new machine (finally, after months of being without my own desktop) and I ended up with the following drives: 3 1/2 Floppy(A:) Removeable USB Device (C:) Removeable USB Device (D:) Removeable USB Device (E:) Removeable USB Device (F:) DVD-RW Drive (G:) Local Disk (H:) C,D, E, and F I do not have at all and disabled via Device manager. Part 1 - Should I have done that?? That now leaves me with: 3 1/2 Floppy(A:) DVD-RW Drive (G:) Local Disk (H:) Certainly unfamiliar (even wrong) labels. Part 2 - What should I do? Leave it with those labels? So - long story short - I am freaking out. .... I don't dare start doing anything (installing) else till I get past this. As always - thanks much. BTW - I put this here because the Hardware is new, not the disk. I have used this install disk before and it never gave me these results. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted November 14, 2004 Posted November 14, 2004 HYmmm, sounds rather odd to me...I thought C: could never be assigned as a removable drive. If this is a new system as you say I would wipe clean and start over. Did you fdisk and create your partitions before you started? Is this pre-installed system or one you built from scratch? Quote
boxturt Posted November 14, 2004 Author Posted November 14, 2004 I didn't think it would do that either. I merely followed the prompts off the install disk letting it do the partitions, etc., just like I've done before. I had this put together (custom) for me by a reputable company Quote
Madmanmcp Posted November 14, 2004 Posted November 14, 2004 Have you rebooted since deleting the other drives? Try and reboot and see what you end up with. Is this on a network? Quote
boxturt Posted November 14, 2004 Author Posted November 14, 2004 Reboot did nothing to change things for the better. PC was not plugged in to any network at the time of install. I think I should start over (half expecting this to happen again) Quote
borfast Posted November 14, 2004 Posted November 14, 2004 That one's really odd! As Bob said, drive C: should never be assigned to a removable drive... If you have the time and patience, I'd say you could try to reinstall everything from scratch again and hope that it doesn't happen. If it does happen again, you can probably call the company that sold you the computer and ask them to help you out. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted November 14, 2004 Posted November 14, 2004 I agree, start over. Boot to the CD and find fdisk and run it and wipe out all partitions and leave an empty Hard Drive. Then reboot and let XP create the C: partition, format it and install the OS. If this doesn't work correctly then start over again but this time YOU manually create the C: partition and format it and install the OS. Good luck. Quote
boxturt Posted November 14, 2004 Author Posted November 14, 2004 I'll try again. It says C: Partition1 [New (Raw)] 76309 MB (76309 MB free) on 76317 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atapi [MBR]. and to me that doesn't look right - a lot of zeros - but I'll let it do its thing and see what happens. Quote
TCH-Dick Posted November 14, 2004 Posted November 14, 2004 Let me guess, WD Raptor SATA drives? I have two of those drives, mine came out the same way. Quote
boxturt Posted November 14, 2004 Author Posted November 14, 2004 The only description I have is : Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM Ultra ATA-100 8MB Cache Quote
boxturt Posted November 14, 2004 Author Posted November 14, 2004 Ok, I now have (after new/fresh install) : 3 1/2 Floppy (A:) Local Disk (C:) Removable Disk (D:) Removable Disk (E:) Removable Disk (F:) Removable Disk (G:) DVD-RW (H:) Better, but not right? (H?) Quote
Madmanmcp Posted November 14, 2004 Posted November 14, 2004 Ok, that looks good. The USB are showing up as drives which is ok. The Drive order after the C: really doesn't matter. The CD and DVD drives can be any letters and the removable drives also. I think you're good to go now. Quote
boxturt Posted November 14, 2004 Author Posted November 14, 2004 Yea, I can live with that. Thanks guys. Now all I have to do is do something about one of the fans. The company upgraded the case without asking and gave me one with a side window (err, ok) and a side fan. Well, this box is literally a desktop unit and now blows air right in my face. Seems as I have 3 fans. Maybe I'll unplug it - see what happens. Or turn it (fan) around. Quote
TCH-Dick Posted November 14, 2004 Posted November 14, 2004 turn the fan around so it blows air into the case Quote
boxturt Posted November 15, 2004 Author Posted November 15, 2004 Update: I unplugged the offending fan (for now) and it's running between 17 and 24 celsius (with a Pentium4) which is a lot cooler than my AMD ever ran so maybe I'm ok? Quote
Madmanmcp Posted November 15, 2004 Posted November 15, 2004 but what are you going to do now when YOU get hot? Quote
boxturt Posted November 15, 2004 Author Posted November 15, 2004 Hmm..... maybe I should add on a toggle switch on the outside for it? Quote
TCH-Don Posted November 15, 2004 Posted November 15, 2004 Yea the cat can turn it on when needed I can see it now Mine can turn on the tv now Quote
boxturt Posted November 15, 2004 Author Posted November 15, 2004 Aren't they amazing sometimes? Unless of course she is critiquing my music.......... Quote
TCH-Don Posted November 15, 2004 Posted November 15, 2004 Yea it amazing how the tv coming on at 4am is Mad!!! But how can you be mad when they look at you :hug: Quote
champagnemojo Posted November 15, 2004 Posted November 15, 2004 Yea the cat can turn it on when needed I can see it now Mine can turn on the tv now Seriously? I'm glad my tv is out of reach...that would drive me crazy. Remember on Green Acres how Arnold the pig would turn on the tv and watch it? I can't help but picture you asking your cat to turn down the tv while you have guests over. Quote
TCH-Don Posted November 16, 2004 Posted November 16, 2004 LOL If we forget to turn the remote upside down, they step on it and bingo, I am surprised they haven't figured out how to get to the animal planet channel Quote
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