New Hard Drive shows up as "E:", need it to be "C:"

[zr500racer]

I replaced the hard drive in a co-worker's workstation. It went well. The only problem that I ran into is getting the new hard drive to be "C:" On start up, it recognizes the new hard drive as "E:". I have it jumped as the Master drive. Windows will go through it's startup routine, then when I logon the screen goes black. Please help, any info is sincerely appreciated. Thanks! Oh yeah, We're running 2000 Pro.

 

[ski]

If the new HD is a replacement for the original boot drive, then was the original HD disconnected from the system before the new HD was installed, and was the new HD partitioned with an active partition and formatted?

 

[zr500racer]

The old harddrive was set up as the slave, the new harddrive as the master. I ran the Drive Image Pro Boot disk on startup then I used Drive Image Pro to copy all the data from old drive to new. I removed the old hard drive. I think that it should've automatically set the new hard drive to "C:" when I started it up again but it didn't. I put the old hard drive back in as master the new one as slave for the time being, until I find out what went wrong.

 

[cdogg]

zr500racer,
Actually, the new hard drive should have been originally added as the slave. Then after using Drive Image to make an exact copy, you would simply remove the old drive. Putting the new drive in as master to begin with might have been the problem.


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[TekTippy4U]

I wonder if you copy all data you want to keep to new drive and blow away the partitions on old (leaving the New one as Master)...and then reformat old through Disk management as a Logical drive only, slaved. Otherwise get Letter Assigner

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[TekTippy4U]

Here's a graphic;
basically make the Old drive an Extended part and Logical only - with the New HDD up and running win2K;

http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_08.htm

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