MSI NEO2 plat sata and ide drive order?

[Steelx]

I just built a new machine using the MSI NEO2 platinum 939 chipset.
it came with bios 1.4

I have 2 drives. one ide drive and 1 sata drive(raptor 74gig).

my problem is that the motherboard cofigures the drives so that windows sees the IDE drive as drive C:
this is a problem becuase i want my OS on the sata drive. and i want that to be drive C:
i tried many bios settings, including chosing the drive in the bios that will hold the OS/boot(making it the sata drive), but still windows sees it as drive D, when installing windows.
how do i make my sata drive to be seen as my c drive??

also, why when i boot up does the screen say that my raptor is on an IDE channel (IDE drive 3 or something like that)?? it is not an ide drive....?

please help!

[jikdoc]

you're gonna need to reinstall windows (maybe even long format it) with just the sata drive plugged in. then later you can hook up the ide drive. i had the same problem and this fixed it. don't worry about the raptor showing up on an ide channel. the sata ports are on sata ide controller.

[Steelx]

thank you jikdoc, I will give that a try

[omega65]

Just a FYI - Make sure you got the Latest Nvidia SATA & IDE drivers from the v5.10 driver. With the drivers I recieved with my board 2 weeks ago WinXP didn't see my Raptor 36gb at all.

Just unzip the v5.10 drivers they'll be under IDE/WinXP

[urbanfox]

I have the same problem, o/s on 80gb sata and 250gb sata storage 2 partitions, but o/s is seen as D.

[Tirlista]

If you are using Win XP or 2000, you can change your drive letters around. You need admin rights.

Right click on My Computer. Select Manage.

Under Storage -> select Disk Management.

In the right hand pane all of your drives and partitions should be listed.

Right click on a drive and you should see "Change drive letter and path..."

If it will not allow you to change the boot drive letter you could always try this:
http://www.helpscreen.com.au/index.php?cid=15&msgid=1011880630

MS knowledge base:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q223188

[Steelx]

the suggestion by jikdoc worked. my OS is now C: drive on my sata raptor. your the man jikdoc. thanks.

[Steelx]

you cannot change the drive letter of the boot drive.

If you are using Win XP or 2000, you can change your drive letters around. You need admin rights.

Right click on My Computer. Select Manage.


Under Storage -> select Disk Management.

In the right hand pane all of your drives and partitions should be listed.

Right click on a drive and you should see "Change drive letter and path..."

If it will not allow you to change the boot drive letter you could always try this:
http://www.helpscreen.com.au/index.php?cid=15&msgid=1011880630

[Tirlista]

You can, but you need to use regedit. Sorry about the other suggestion.

[jikdoc]

don't think it works in regedit either without messing things up a f*ckton

[Tirlista]

Ok, no worries. I had never tried the regedit 'hax'. I recently had the same woes with my SATA setup and I just reformatted using unattended install so it was no drama.