Hard disk in wrong drive

[jpstafford]

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.

[Backdated]

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?

[jpstafford]

The hard drive is a western digital serial ATA

what am i looking for in BIOS?

[jpstafford]

oh i also forgot the desktop board is Intel D945Psn and OS is Windows XP Pro if that matters.

[dl65]

 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  

[jpstafford]

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 )