Topic: win XP + new 40G hard drive

[TR]

Nearly there! 1 small problem.. no sound :'( it tells me there is no sound card....But its on board the Mobo any suggestions.

Pretty please

Hookstar

[Sandra]

The first thing Iwould check is to see if its enabled in BIOS.If it isnt then enable it.If it is delete it and reboot to see if it finds it on its next run through

[TR]

Sandra.. would the bios have changed, just by adding a new hard drive and OS.

[Sandra]

Possibly some of the settings when installing the OS.It may well have gone back to its default one but I am not 100% certain.
Are you still around Saint ?
Its as well to check it in case it turns out to be as simple as that  

[Adept]

Are you still around Saint ?

Yes, but I'm not much use Sandra Too many bottles of Co-Op Stong Ale I'm afraid.

What was the question again? Something about sound was it? What you said at 09:44:03pm sounds sensible to me ...

[TR]

99% there now.. had to down load sound drivers on line to make it work.. dont ask .

One small problem now that I have everything up n Running.. my hard drive is now on "G" huh.. how did that come about where has "c" gone when it was a clean install

Hook

[Sandra]

How many drives have you?
I assume that you have just the one hard drive plus cd/dvd/wrIter etc or is this a second drive for a second OS?
What are the drive letters for the other drives?

[daveeb]

sounds like one for the microsoft knowledge base on the microsoft site. the pc must somehow still think the old drive is there and has assigned the next available letter.

[TR]

I think the problem is that when I started the upgrade I should have took out the extra USB ports for the card reader  .

my systen is as:
A = Floppy
C = Removable disk  USB
D = Removable disk  USB
E = DVD
F = CD/RW

And You guessed it!! G is now my hard drive

Oh well to late now..thanks for all the input over the past few days.... .

Merry xmas all

[Sandra]

I should think that if you delete the 2 usb ones from inside device manager and reboot it will probably re arrange your letters again Hookstar with any luck  

[Adept]

I should think that if you delete the 2 usb ones from inside device manager and reboot it will probably re arrange your letters again Hookstar with any luck  

I don't think it will Sandra. XP will maintain the drive letter. If you use the disk management function to re-letter the drives, you'll find the OS won't load

That's why my XP machines' system drive is H:

[TR]

Ho Folks..

What would happen if I deleted the whole system and started again.. .
And before I reload XP, I unplug the "usb" bits, would that be better.

Hook

[Sandra]

You could do but if you are using XP Home it only allows you to install it 3 times apparently and if you need to install again you have to contact Uncle Bill to allow you to install it again.
XP Pro for some reason ( I have been told ) allows multiple reinstalls.
I think you will be well advised to leave things as they are as I dont think it will object to not being called "C"  

[Simon]

This is exactly what happened to my cousin's PC, when she had to reinstall XP.  Her hard drive is now E!  Can you not rename the drive letters with something like Partition Magic?  Or is that likely to throw a spanner in the works?

[Tony]

I've just been looking at Hard Drive requirements for Operating Systems on the MS web site, with a view to partitioning large hard drives.

For W2K Pro, MS say, a 2.0GB HDD with a minimum of 650MB freespace.

For Win XP Pro, MS say, 1.5GB of avaliable disk space

The above, is the actual wording on the MS web site

So Adept, why do you recommend a 8GB partition. Now look, I'm not trying to suggest you are wrong   heaven forbid I would dare try and alienate you, my font of PC wisdom, no I was just wondering that's all.

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