SATA 'D' Drive

[conncarr]

OK, so on my PC I don't have an IDE harddrive, I have a SATA harddrive. The problem is that the system doesn't see it as a 'C' drive, but a 'D' drive. Everything loads up ok, but if I want to load new software (i.e. Garmin v9) the installer automatically tries to install to the 'C' drive, and therefore comes up with an error 'unable to find 'C' drive. This is driving me bonkers because even my (legal) MS Office wont run because the installer is looking for a 'C' drive!!!!!!

Is there any way I can fool my PC into thinking that the SATA drive is a 'C' drive?? It is, afterall the boot drive, so if windows XP Pro can see it why can't anything else??

I hate computers. PC's

 

[Blackal]

I understand you to be saying that you have only one drive, which is SATA?

If you choose manual install rather than recommended, can you not pick out the exact location you want the application?

Al

 

[conncarr]

I wish

No, whichever setup application I used it immediately comes up with 'no C drive'. I think you have to get beyond this point to specify a location

 

[terayon]

Did you install the drive yourself. And install windows as well.

Best thing to do you be to re-partition the drive and re-install everything again.
You probably have 2 partitions on the drive and installed windows to the second partition because the first one was not formatted and is not showing on the computer

 

[conncarr]

Hi Terayon.

Yes, I did install everything myself, but there are no partitions (or rather the drive is one complete volume). The problem is that I don't have a harddrive connected to either of the IDE cables. My motherboard has the capability for two IDE master and slaves, and four sata drives. My original intention was to RAID two sata drives, so the dvd an cd drives are on one of the ide's and my main harddrive is connected to SATA ONE. Unfortunately it seems that the system only sees it as a 'D' drive, not a 'C' drive.

 

[turbine_2]

From a command prompt (Start | Run | CMD)

SUBST C: D:

you will end up with a C: and a D: that are the same, but that should not matter. If that does not work try

NET USE C: \\computername\d$ /p

Don't try both.

 

[conncarr]

From a command prompt (Start | Run | CMD)

SUBST C: D:

you will end up with a C: and a D: that are the same, but that should not matter. If that does not work try

NET USE C: \\computername\d$ /p

Don't try both.

Hi,
Tried this (these) with no success.

I think with the C: D: one there has to be a 'C' drive existing on the machine. With the netuse I got a bit confused with the parameters. Tried lots of combinations but nothing worked. I think at the end of the day I will have to put in a 'C' drive and sort it out that way.

Thanks for the help anyway.

Cheers, Brian

 

[turbine_2]

SUBST is old school, so may not work (although I did use it for a while on a 2003 server). It basically redirects requests for C: to D: so should require there not be a C: drive there in the first place. What's the error you're getting?
Not sure what the problem with Net Use could be, unless you're not sure of the computer name. Try NET USE C: \\127.1.1.1\d$ which should do the same as \\computername\d$
It could be that C: is 'protected' by the O/S, in which case you're stuffed and down to sticking the extra drive in your machine if you don't want to start playing around with disk manager and regedit, two small goats, a left handed chicken and an unspoiled 21 year old virgin from Swansea.