Author Topic: Is it bad to have OS on E drive? (Read 632 times)

NUKE · « **on:** August 12, 2003, 07:16:46 AM »

I have just reinstalled WinXP on my system and it installed to the E drive for some reason. The "E" drive is actually my primary drive, but it got labeled E somehow

I have two IDE drives, my main drive is set to master, other slave both connected to IDE1 slot .

For some reason the system lists my secondary drive as C: and my primary drive as E:

Just wondering if Im going to have problems with Windows being installed on my E drive ?

flakbait · « **Reply #1 on:** August 12, 2003, 12:20:09 PM »

You sure your HDDs are connected to IDE-1 instead of IDE-0? That alone can cause the SNAFU with your drive label. Plugging the IDE cable into the mobo and then into each HDD can cause the same glitch, because the mobo detects 'em in the order they get plugged in. Now I'm not saying you don't have a clue what you're doin, but here's a pointer: plug the IDE cable into the drives first, THEN plug it into the mobo starting with IDE Zero.

As far as install location, you won't have too many Windoze problems with it. Other programs/games might not enjoy eyeballing "E:\Windows\system" when looking for files n such though. From what I've been told, installing to anything other than C:\ is trouble waiting to happen. Then again, some guys run a Winblows/xxxx dual boot off two seperate drives and never have a hiccup with either.

*shrug*

Definitely a case of YMMV

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NUKE · « **Reply #2 on:** August 12, 2003, 02:02:52 PM »

Actually I have the drives pugged into the primary IDE slot, meant to say ide0 not 1. and they are plugged in the correct order.

I guess Im going to reformat my main HD and put Windows on it's own partiton and start over.

Also,these drives are plugged into an Ultra IDE controller card. I've had this system set up 3 or 4 different ways trying to get around a problem with 48bit addressing in XP, so I tried using the controller card this time and now I have the drive letter problem. The other times I used the MB for the IDE's and D/L XPPro ATAPI driver update to correct 48 bit addressing problems with large HD's, but seemed to have problems .

Thanks for the input, my gut instinct was that I would run into problems with system files not being on the C:\ drive

bloom25 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 12, 2003, 02:52:10 PM »

You shouldn't have any problems. (My primary drive is F: under Win2k - triple boot system)

The only issue is that you will have to be sure to point program installers to your E drive, rather than the default of C:.