Systempartition not C but H-New winxp-installation

[europanorama]

Instead of C my new Winxp-new HDD-installation shows H as systempartition.
I didnt remove the cardreader(not USB but internal) during installation. It could be that esata-drive was ON during installation and there is a bootable systempartition(from a different pc).

what can i do to change that? should i do that or couldnt this lead to problems? I guess yes if i confuse C with H during backups.
USB-drive was certainly not there-i must first setup the driver. no further usb-sticks attached.
btw: system is not yet fully installed. Only winxp. cannot see usb-stick for driver at the moment, maybe new start. If nothing helps i must burn a driver-cd.
i have two problems now:
a) switching from H to C. H= systempartition, remaining space not yet set. C= usb-stick which was not attached during installation.

b) accessing usb-drive-driver-installation.

[europanorama]

DVD-drive=G
Systemdrive=H
just attached a pendrive to an usb-console. that one is D
wierd isnt it?
I am totally sure not usb-stick was attached during installation.
Maybe new installation is better. Would formatting be enough? or removing partition?

[SpywareDr]

One solution: Start over

[europanorama]

Exactly. And i was rigth. esata recognized as C,D,E partitions!
where i am always unsure: Does it make sense to set systempartition nonactive(external drive like my esata) when its not used?

[SpywareDr]

1) Disconnect all drives except your optical drive for the Windows installation CD/DVD and the hard drive you wish to install Windows onto.

2) Insert the Windows CD/DVD in your optical drive.

3) Set the computer's CMOS/BIOS Setup to attempt to boot from the optical drive first, save your changes and exit.

4) Follow the onscreen instructions to delete all partitions, create a new partition and format it, and then install Windows on that partition.

5) When the installation is complete it will start to reboot the computer. To keep the computer from attempting to reboot from the Windows installation CD/DVD again, remove it so that the computer will from the hard drive instead.

[europanorama]

Could it be that damaged memory-pair damaged also Firefox? could not repair that. Could repair hdd(at least that is what WD-utility told. I could start windows but the problems remained. so i tried to recover systempartion without success. could not boot, data is there. tried boot-sektor-repair. could not do that on command-console. Maybe better do the next steps instead of looking back. regularly testing memory.

[Train]

Test the ram and run the diagnostic on the hdd.

[europanorama]

wd-tools succesfully repaired. no succes. i will repeat. meanwhile a new drive 2tb is setup and is running better like never before. had a lot of duplicates of my favourites from the days febe(FF-addon) could not yet merge them....

[Train]

wd-tools succesfully repaired. no succes.

Time to find a replacement.
I used a 10 kg hammer on mine that did that. Bad sectors most likely.

[europanorama]

Hammering without opening the case? I have some hdds to destroy. Ok will open since i need the magnets.
2. Cannot destroy, need data on it. will copy them.

3. maybe its too complex to understand why its not booting anymore.
did repair, used bootsector-repair-tool, formatted systempartition. should i delete and recreate that partition. can i still reuse the old backup again?

Interestingly acronis systeminformation boot-cd is not booting in none of my two pcs. wrong boot-sector.
recreated, did not help. maybe a different problem.

[Train]

I have DBAN a drive twice, yes that is 6 layers of over write.
Did a clean install, and used this drive for the new C drive.
Then attached the other drives to save what I hated to lose.
When finished I disconnected the new C drive and DBAN each of the other drives one at a time.

Now, I started over from scratch, yes forget all the image files you have.

But be sure you run the hdd manufactors diagnostic tool on each drive. Kind sounds like you have bad clusters in the boot sector of the drives.

[europanorama]

My situation is different. 500gb-drive has multiple partitions. data is outside systempartition. i have access also to c-systempartition but not as bootdrive. i will give up that drive. before doing more steps(check if i could repair and reboot after recovery) i will copy data.