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Wrong Driveletter

After you have done a windows reinstallation and you notice that the hard drive is a drive letter other than C, this may be due to a zip drive, flash card reader, or a printer installed during the install.

Another words, you have a printer, USB device, USB card reader, zip drive or other drive connected when you start the install of windows. When you are done with the install, you notice that the zip, flash card, USB device or other device is listed as drive C and your hard drive is listed as drive F, G, H or other drive letter besides C.

This will cause problems with some programs. Some programs require the C drive to be the hard drive.

You have to make sure that the following has been disconnected

• Zip drives (internal and external you will need to disconnect them and then reconnect them after the setup is complete)

• Flash card readers

• Printers

• USB cards (such as PCI USB card readers)

If you do not disconnect them before windows install, windows will make them drive letter C and the hard drive drive letter E, F or other designation. Then when you try to install drivers or programs, they will not install. Some programs will install but some will not.

The only way to fix this is to disconnect the drives mentioned above and start all over.