service pack 2

hi to all the clever ones out there
i have refomatted my pc and basicly made an arse
my main hard drive is now d drive
and the smaller one is the c drive
my pc works fine untill i try to install service pack 2
instead of it loading to d drive which is the main drive
in trys to install to c
where there is not enough memeory
how can i get windows sevice pack 2 to install to d drive
or how can i format my pc and put it back as it should be
i have been playing in the bios setting aswell

thanks again

 

I believe you are going to have to reformat and re-install Windows (I presume you are talking about Windows?)

When you do re-install Windows there should be a selection on which drive you want to install the OS on. I don't remember for sure, but I think it is a pull-down menu. I had the same problem, but I noticed it in time when I saw that the harddrive space was only 2GB (I place my swapfile there). I then had Windows go to the proper drive, and all was well.

HTH,

Rich

 

You may not have to reinstall windows you can do a drive letter change through the manager as long as it is not your boot volume and you partioned your drives using NTFS.
The following is out of the Windows XP help section. Just make sure you read all of it before you attempt to make the change. You can also open the help window in XP and search for the following "How to change drive letter" (without the quotes) to see the same info.

To assign, change, or remove a drive letter
Using the Windows interface

Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Where?

Computer Management (Local)
Storage
Disk Management

Right-click a partition, logical drive, or volume, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Do one of the following:
To assign a drive letter, click Add, click the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK.
To modify a drive letter, click it, click Change, click the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK.
To remove a drive letter, click it, and then click Remove.
Important

Be careful when making drive-letter assignments because many MS-DOS and Windows programs make references to a specific drive letter. For example, the path environment variable shows specific drive letters in conjunction with program names.
Notes

To open Computer Management, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this procedure.
A computer can use up to 26 drive letters. Drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives, but you can assign these letters to removable drives if the computer does not have a floppy disk drive. Hard disk drives in the computer receive letters C through Z, while mapped network drives are assigned drive letters in reverse order (Z through B).
You cannot change the drive letter of the system volume or boot volume.
An error message may appear when you attempt to assign a letter to a volume, CD-ROM drive, or other removable media device, possibly because it is in use by a program in the system. If this happens, close the program accessing the volume or drive, and then click the Change Drive Letter and Paths command again.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP allow the static assignment of drive letters on volumes, partitions, and CD-ROM drives. This means that you permanently assign a drive letter to a specific partition, volume, or CD-ROM drive. When you add a new hard disk to an existing computer system, it will not affect statically assigned drive letters.
You can also mount a local drive at an empty folder on an NTFS volume using a drive path instead of a drive letter. For more information, click Related Topics.

Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Where?

Computer Management (Local)
Storage
Disk Management

Right-click a partition, logical drive, or volume, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Do one of the following:
To assign a drive letter, click Add, click the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK.
To modify a drive letter, click it, click Change, click the drive letter you want to use, and then click OK.
To remove a drive letter, click it, and then click Remove.
Important

Be careful when making drive-letter assignments because many MS-DOS and Windows programs make references to a specific drive letter. For example, the path environment variable shows specific drive letters in conjunction with program names.
Notes

To open Computer Management, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings might also prevent you from completing this procedure.
A computer can use up to 26 drive letters. Drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives, but you can assign these letters to removable drives if the computer does not have a floppy disk drive. Hard disk drives in the computer receive letters C through Z, while mapped network drives are assigned drive letters in reverse order (Z through B).
You cannot change the drive letter of the system volume or boot volume.
An error message may appear when you attempt to assign a letter to a volume, CD-ROM drive, or other removable media device, possibly because it is in use by a program in the system. If this happens, close the program accessing the volume or drive, and then click the Change Drive Letter and Paths command again.
Windows 2000 and Windows XP allow the static assignment of drive letters on volumes, partitions, and CD-ROM drives. This means that you permanently assign a drive letter to a specific partition, volume, or CD-ROM drive. When you add a new hard disk to an existing computer system, it will not affect statically assigned drive letters.
You can also mount a local drive at an empty folder on an NTFS volume using a drive path instead of a drive letter. For more information, click Related Topics.

 

I agree you can change the drive letter of a drive, but somewhere down the line, I can almost assure you that you will run into some problems. I always change my DVD drives, and one time some application that I ran somehow change it back to the normal letter, and for awhile I could not figure out why certain applications would not work properly, DOH. Best do a re-install, IMHO.

Regards,

Rich

 

Granted, but worth a shot if you know you may have to rebuild the system if it does not work. Just make sure to backup any important info prior to attempting it just incase it blows up windows.

One note on using XP to partition your drive (if you haven't figured this out already)is the first time you partition the drive you will notice that after the C partition is created the next drive letter usually is E and not D (windows defaults the CD drive to D). At that point just delete all partitions including C and recreate them. This time XP will assign C then D as drive letters. Also make sure that C is highlighted when it asks you which drive to install windows on.
Also a good utility to have is MaxBlast4 from Maxtor. It works with most drives except Western Digitals. You can download it as an ISO file and it is bootable. It has several diagnostic tools including a quick and full "Low Format" tool to blow out drive so that it looks like a fresh drive to windows. In your case you only need to run the Quick format, which takes about 30 seconds to run.
Good luck