I am building a brand new computer, and while everything is working, when I installed Windows XP, I found my hard disk drive is in drive I, instead of C, all other drives are before it, in fact, they are in the opposite order I would LIKE them. I know I can change the order of the other drives through XP, but how do I change the drive of the hard disk? I don't mind starting over, reformatting, whatever I need to do, as I haven't set up anything really anyway. Is this something I can do through BIOS or did I connect it wrong somehow? Oh and for information it's a brand new hard disk, the only one in the computer, then I have a DVD drive, DVD burner, and a card reader.You'll have to start afresh as you can't "move" the boot drive.
What system do you have? Is the drive an IDE device or SATA/RAID/SCSI?
How is it all set up in the BIOS?The hard drive is a western digital serial ATA

what am i LOOKING for in BIOS?oh i also forgot the desktop board is Intel D945Psn and OS is Windows XP Pro if that matters.jpstafford... Perhaps you could MENTION .....
How many hard drives you have ...and do you have them partitioned and if so how ?
How many optical drives do you have ?

which IDE controller are you using for the HDs ...... primary or secondary ?
Are you using any external HDs ?

Which IDE controller are you using for your optical drives .......... primary or secondary ?

Is your card reader ....internal or external and is it a USB interface ?


dl65 thanks for all your help, but i did finally FIX the problem. It was the internal card reader CAUSING the issue. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer )