Fresh Install of XP - Changing the "C" Drive?

[Gimpymoo]

I have 5 Hard Drives installed and wish to do a clean install of XP and Vista in that order.

When installing XP, the installer automatically assigns a drive letter to the drives, I assume the letters are assigned in the order in which the drives are detected on the channels.

I wish to install XP and it's boot loader onto one of the drives, although this this drive is assigned drive letter "D" with the bootloader files STILL being loaded to drive C.

I wish drive "D" to be labelled "C" and have this has the MAIN partition instead of the bootloader files being added to C: I need this drive to remain completely independent of the OS.

I have tried disabling the channels in the BIOS yet it still detects the drives.

Other than disconnecting the power to the drives, is this possible.. if it makes sense to anybody.

Thanks for any help.

Gimp

 

[Deleted member 64478]

When installing XP/Vista I always disconnect all drives attached to it (USB/IDE/SATA e.t.c).

Only have the one that your installing the OS on acctually powered up and the CD/DVD drive. This way you won't run into problems such as drive letter mapping.

 

[pmbuzz]

Same as above for me.
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