Change letter of new hard drive?????

[noaaprogrammer]

I just installed a second hard drive on my PC. I installed it as the slave, copied the master over to it, and then reversed them so that the new drive is now the master. I am booting up to the new drive fine. However, my new drive has the drive letter "F:" and the old (slave) drive still has the drive letter "C:". Is it possible to safely swap these drive letters? I would really like for my new primary drive to be the "C:" drive.

 

[cdogg]

What happens when the slave drive is disconnected? Does the new drive show as C:? If so, then you no longer need the data stored on the old drive. I suggest reformatting it ASAP.

Also, your system looks for the "active" primary partitions before extended partitions during bootup and assigns drive letters in that order. Perhaps the new drive's primary partition isn't set properly. You can use fdisk to check...


~cdogg

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[edfair]

The old drive is still the boot drive. The boot drive is automatically set as C: Ed Fair
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[wolluf]

Your operating system would be useful information (eg, 9x/ME are a bit different to NT/XP/2k)

 

[noaaprogrammer]

Thanks for the suggestions. I got it fixed. Apparently, the software that came with my new Western Digital wasn't able to completely clone my disk. I used Norton Ghost 2003 to clone the old disk to the new one, and now it is working properly.