Which is Drive C? F?

[rdy4trvl]

My C Drive encountered problems and I switched the C and F (which was a mirror of C before the problems). Now my F has bad sectors which were repaired but I have encountered a number of problems with other programs.

The very basic problem…when I switched the drives I assumed the C was determined based on where it was connected on the cable – I now believe this is incorrect. The issue is I need to wipe one drive clean to start over and I (obviously) want to wipe the right one.

Needless to say I will back up the most critical files to DVD no matter what I do.

Using windows Explorer my “C” (a 160 gig drive) has the latest files; the “F” (110 gig) --- is it safe to wipe the 110 gig drive clean? Is Explorer reliable at identifying these drives using the gig size?
Thanks!

 

[bcastner]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q825668

And if that is not confusing enough, I would use the diskpart.exe command to determine which drive was which:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;300415

 

[FlammerDylis]

maybe you can use a knoppix distribution, it may be useful for saving your data ( if not considering burning, or try knoppix copy to ram)