I was wondering if someone could take a look at my problem.
This is the first time that I can remember when Windows has completely and totally confused the hell out of me.
Normally I can happily come to the conclusion that it's fubared, but this is just plain strange.
Here's the deal:
My Windows had been acting up a bit for a while. My sound was constantly skipping. I suspected various causes, but I settled on installing a fresh install of Windows on a secondary drive I have installed.
I stick in the CD, install, etc. Everything seems fine.
Then, after I'd loaded up all the drivers and whatnot, when I was on the nice clean fresh desktop I went into Explorer and was a little confused to see that the new Windows drive, which was previously the F: drive, is now the C: drive.
What was previously the C: drive is now the D: drive and the old E: drive is now... the E: drive.
What's weirder is that I previously had the CD drive set to be the D: drive, and now it's on J: of all things. I can't help but wonder where the F, G and H and I drives went to.
Anyway, that's only the beginning. I chalked up the above to Windows quirkiness, and so I rebooted, wondering what would happen.
It didn't offer me the OS choice menu and went straight into my old install of Windows. The drive letters were back to normal.
Odd.
To cut this a bit shorter, I deduced that when I had the Windows CD in the drive, let it say "Press button to boot from CD" and ignore that, it will start up in the new install of Windows. If I don't have the Windows CD in or I have any other CD in the drive, it'll start up in my old copy of Windows.
Whilst it's sort of cool to have this little clean semi-hidden Windows install, it's also really confusing me.
It's just occured to me that while I've reinstalled Windows loads of times, it's always been when something bad's happened and my installation's died, forcing me to install onto a different drive or onto the same boot-drive as a refresh. In those cases, though, the drive letter assignations stayed the same. Still, I'm wondering if there's something rather simple that I have neglected to do.
I would try setting up one of those boot menus manually, as they seem fairly simple from what I recall, but I have no idea what to assign for each drive, as they seem to change dynamically.
Thanks for reading.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I'm completely foxed!
This is the first time that I can remember when Windows has completely and totally confused the hell out of me.
Normally I can happily come to the conclusion that it's fubared, but this is just plain strange.
Here's the deal:
My Windows had been acting up a bit for a while. My sound was constantly skipping. I suspected various causes, but I settled on installing a fresh install of Windows on a secondary drive I have installed.
I stick in the CD, install, etc. Everything seems fine.
Then, after I'd loaded up all the drivers and whatnot, when I was on the nice clean fresh desktop I went into Explorer and was a little confused to see that the new Windows drive, which was previously the F: drive, is now the C: drive.
What was previously the C: drive is now the D: drive and the old E: drive is now... the E: drive.
What's weirder is that I previously had the CD drive set to be the D: drive, and now it's on J: of all things. I can't help but wonder where the F, G and H and I drives went to.
Anyway, that's only the beginning. I chalked up the above to Windows quirkiness, and so I rebooted, wondering what would happen.
It didn't offer me the OS choice menu and went straight into my old install of Windows. The drive letters were back to normal.
Odd.
To cut this a bit shorter, I deduced that when I had the Windows CD in the drive, let it say "Press button to boot from CD" and ignore that, it will start up in the new install of Windows. If I don't have the Windows CD in or I have any other CD in the drive, it'll start up in my old copy of Windows.
Whilst it's sort of cool to have this little clean semi-hidden Windows install, it's also really confusing me.
It's just occured to me that while I've reinstalled Windows loads of times, it's always been when something bad's happened and my installation's died, forcing me to install onto a different drive or onto the same boot-drive as a refresh. In those cases, though, the drive letter assignations stayed the same. Still, I'm wondering if there's something rather simple that I have neglected to do.
I would try setting up one of those boot menus manually, as they seem fairly simple from what I recall, but I have no idea what to assign for each drive, as they seem to change dynamically.
Thanks for reading.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I'm completely foxed!
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