re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 10:09 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chris
(1 messages posted)
Okay.... I just figured out how to clone a boot drive and then change its drive
letter and have everything still work.
Here is what I did. I had a 30 gig that was my boot drive with xp on it, I cloned
it to a 160 gig with Norton Ghost 9 but it gave it the boot letter D: after cloning
it windows xp would not boot from it. Then i ran windows setup and looked like I
was going to run setup, hit f8 to accept then hit r to repair, after repair, I booted
fine, but was boot drive D: instead of C: which is what it needs to be for all the
applications and some windows stuff to work. So I use partition magic 8 and changed
the boot drive letter and then restared. xp didnt like that so I ran the setup again
and repaired it the same way and it is working wonderfully . wish someone would
have helped me.
On Monday, January 26, 2004 at 11:30 pm, JamesH wrote:
>Here's an easy way fellas.. if you have an extra HD, image your drive over to another
>drive, remove your zip and make your primary the only IDE device other then cdroms.
> format your drive and then image the drive back over to your hd.. plug in zip and
>all worked fine for me. Otherwise, nothing else will work
>
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