Had to install new hard drive. Then re-installed XP. All went well. Activation done successfully. Went to My Computer and saw my hard drive was now labeled "Local Disk(F:) and my internal ZIP drive was now labeled "C:" Was able to successfully use regedit.exe and locate registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and then changed \DosDevices\C: (the ZIP drive) to \DosDevices\G:. For some reason, the procedure doesn't seem to work trying to change the hard drive "F:" to "C:". Am I missing something or is there some other procedure? 1 person needs an answerI do too

You made a simple mistake on the xp installation,you had other drives connected to the pc during the installation..Unplug all but one to be C: drive & cdrom with xp cd installed...From here you can only reinstall xp to fix the problem.....

You made a simple mistake on the xp installation,you had other drives connected to the pc during the installation..Unplug all but one to be C: drive & cdrom with xp cd installed...From here you can only reinstall xp to fix the problem.....Makes sense. Unfortunately my brain didn't realize that before the install. Since I already activated the XP re-install with Microsoft, will I run into trouble with them if I do another complete re-install and then do another internet connection for activation? Do I have to manually wipe the hard disk clean or will the re-installation just write over what's already there?

You made a simple mistake on the xp installation,you had other drives connected to the pc during the installation..Unplug all but one to be C: drive & cdrom with xp cd installed...From here you can only reinstall xp to fix the problem.....Makes sense. Unfortunately my brain didn't realize that before the install. Since I already activated the XP re-install with Microsoft, will I run into trouble with them if I do another complete re-install and then do another internet connection for activation? Do I have to manually wipe the hard disk clean or will the re-installation just write over what's already there?edit: Disconnected drives as indicated, re-installed Windows; Window did a format of the drive first; was able to activate without a problem.Thanks