Adjusting Default Installation Drive

[Guest RAZ]

We are using a Windows 2003 Enterprise server for our exchange 2003

server. When I try to install a new program on the server it will

automatically choose to go to the E drive instead of the C drive. This

normally wouldn't be so bad except that I can't install SP2 because it cannot

find the INF file on the E drive and you are not given the choice to choose

what drive you want to install it on. Where do you adjust the setting to

select the default drive for installing programs on this type of server?

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Adjusting Default Installation Drive

 

Hello RAZ,

 

Does this also occur if you copy the extracted files to the c-drive? Did

you repartition the server or is something happend then you can see why it

is using the e-drive?

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> We are using a Windows 2003 Enterprise server for our exchange

> 2003 server. When I try to install a new program on the server it will

> automatically choose to go to the E drive instead of the C drive. This

> normally wouldn't be so bad except that I can't install SP2 because it

> cannot find the INF file on the E drive and you are not given the

> choice to choose what drive you want to install it on. Where do you

> adjust the setting to select the default drive for installing programs

> on this type of server?

>

[Guest steve]

Re: Adjusting Default Installation Drive

 

Im not sure exactly how to resolve the problem short of backing

everything up. Deleting the disk partitions and then installing and

then restoring.

 

Here is possibly the problem??

 

If you had say a c and d disk drives, and both where primary partions,

then you deleted say the C partition and then created a new c partion

it is my understanding that this screws things up. It has to do with

the fact that primary partions are lettered first.

 

See http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partLetter-c.html for helpful

info.

 

I think you should in future make the c drive a primary partions and

then all other subsequent drives extended. This means that the c drive

will always mean the first drive eg C. and not get confused.

 

regards