Building my second computer. Have a ECS K7VZA motherboard and a 10G Samsung HD. When I try to load WindowsME to C:\ it says not enough memory. When I try again it goes to the blue ScanDisk screen. When I change the directory to c:\ it gives me the abort, retry, fail command. A: drive works. E: drive works. I think it's making my hard drive D:\. How can I make it the C:\ drive or load windows to the D:\ drive.

Is C: formatted? partitioned?

Is it recognized by Fdisk?

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i know it has been partitioned. how exactly do you format it?

With your boot disk in at the a prompt type format c: you can add a couple of switches...I think /v will verify the format adding the /s will copy the system files to the hard drive making it bootable (may not be necessary though).

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Windows setup installs a temporary RAM disk as C:, bumping the
other drives each up one letter during the setup procedure only.

Is the CD a retail version, or a restore or OEM disk?

You may have a jumper configuration conflict.

How many drives, and how are they setup:

Primary -- Master = ? / Slave = ?
Secondary -- Master = ? / Slave = ?

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[This message has been edited by tjaymadison (edited 06-05-2001).]