Adjusting Default Installation Drive

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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?
 
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?
>
 
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
 
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