Just curious, but perhaps it’s possible that the unwanted drive was once
designated as a [system] drive and still contains this information in its
boot sector. When loading, the system may be detecting this and selecting
it.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" – Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help – www.rickrogers.org
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"Brian W" <> wrote in message
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>I have 3 HDDs in my PC (don’t ask why!). The boot/system drive is connected
>to SATA port 0 and is set in the BIOS as the first boot device.
>
> When I run the Windows Vista install DVD, I get a different HDD as ‘Drive
> 0′, the device I want as the Boot/system drive is set as ‘Drive 2’. The
> only way I can install to Drive 0 is to disconnect the other two drives
> prior to installing.
>
> This wasn’t a problem with Vista RTM disc, but since SP1 I’ve had this
> problem. And the same now with Windows 7!
>
> Strange problem, any ideas? It’s not the end of the world but a weird
> problem all the same.
>
>
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