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Originally posted by Belisarius I've never switched BIOS's on a motherboard before, only flashed them with an updated version. You shouldn't loose the contents of the discs, as you're not even accessing them when you do a BIOS flash. But you might have to reinstall Windows if it can't find programs where it thinks they are when you reassign drives. Generally speaking, you can reassign drive letters within Windows. I know I do.
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Reinstalling Windows as an overlay wouldn't be a problem. My present problem is ahem rather peculiar so bear with me. Originally I had the works (Windows and Program Files) on C drive - Samsung, the larger disc - and on drive D - Maxtor, the smaller disc - I had music and miscellaneous files. I also had removable drives E and F, but these are unaffected. Then, a few weeks back, in a sort of lightning flash, drive letters C and D were reversed. Now the works are lettered drive D i.e. Samsung is called D and Maxtor is called C. So the files are still on the original physical discs but the drive letters are different.
I've tried re-establishing the original status but the BIOS doesn't present me with the full options anymore so I'm assuming the BIOS is knackered and that's why I reckon I need a new BIOS.
You said above that drive letters can be reassigned from within Windows? How does one go about doing this?