Topic: Help re printer installation and missing microsoft progs

[Simon]

Perhaps the best advice to give your friends, Matthew, is to recommend them to PC Pals Forum!  

Of course, I'm not saying no one should offer to help someone out, if they can.  It does seem though, that the law of sod applies, and if something's going to go wrong, that's when it'll happen.  

[Sandra]

something went wrong, and her main drive is now 'E', not 'C'.

Simon there is somewhere in the administrator part that allows you to reassign drive letters in XP.I flashed my bios last night so my pc could see the extra 8 gig it couldnt see with the old bios and it assigned the extra bit as drive G.Just change whatever is now C to a higher leter,say G,then change E to C and then change the others to which you want  

[Simon]

Thanks Sandra, but with this machine it would just not be that simple.  I'm also not sure if something is still on 'C' drive, but hidden.  I don't intend fiddling with it again!  

[TR]

Simon  

I tried to redirect you to a web site but couldnt for some reason but have cut n paste the article... 8)

Changing Drive Letters in Windows XP?

When you add drives to your computer, such as an extra hard drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically assigns letters to the drives. However, this assignment might not suit your system; for example, you might have mapped a network drive to the same letter that Windows assigns to a new drive. When you want to change drive letters, follow these steps:

Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
Under Computer Management, click Disk Management. In the right pane, you?ll see your drives listed. CD-ROM drives are listed at the bottom of the pane.
Right-click the drive or device you want to change, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Click Change, click Assign the following drive letter, click the drive letter you want to assign, and then click OK.
You will not be able to change the boot or system drive letter in this manner. Many MS-DOS-based and Windows-based programs make references to a specific drive letter (for example, environment variables). If you modify the drive letter, these programs may not function correctly.


Ps.. When I installed XP 1st time I left all the usb hubs in and it assigned my hard drive to "E" guess what I did.. complete reinstall  

Hookstar

The original site is here Simon  HEREor M$N

Sorry it went off topic Mathew

[Simon]

OK, thanks Hook.  Perhaps next time I visit my cousin, I'll have another look at it.  I don't think the main drive being 'E' is actually causing any problems.  Her main trouble is lack of memory (only has 128Mb) for XP, and crappy on board graphics, but there's a computer guy she knows locally, so I'm keeping quiet and letting someone else deal with it!  

[Matthew]

Might be a wise decision Simon.  As to my problem, it's all sorted  , I located where microsoft office had been moved to (for whatever reason ) and reinstalled the printer succesfully.  Now, its down to him and I'm going to be too busy if he needs further help

[Simon]

Well done Matthew!  Glad you got it sorted.  Tell him to come here next time!  

[Clive]

Phew!  That's a relief Matthew!