In the process of upgrading my hard drive, I did something that
resulted in the following:

1. I am unable to boot the PC when I remove the original hard drive
(the original C: drive which had the bootstrap and was the system
drive, now labeled Y. Under My Computer, the drive is labeled in
blue for some reason.

2. My new C: has been mapped as a virtual drive as well (G.

I'd like to be able to remove Y: and get rid of G: while making sure
all the references to G: are moved to C:

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Multi-posted - see winxp.general.


"Superuser" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> In the process of upgrading my hard drive, I did something that
> resulted in the following:
>
> 1. I am unable to boot the PC when I remove the original hard drive
> (the original C: drive which had the bootstrap and was the system
> drive, now labeled Y. Under My Computer, the drive is labeled in
> blue for some reason.
>
> 2. My new C: has been mapped as a virtual drive as well (G.
>
> I'd like to be able to remove Y: and get rid of G: while making sure
> all the references to G: are moved to C:
>
> Any help would be hugely appreciated!
>

Superuser wrote:
> In the process of upgrading my hard drive, I did something that
> resulted in the following:
>
> 1. I am unable to boot the PC when I remove the original hard drive
> (the original C: drive which had the bootstrap and was the system
> drive, now labeled Y. Under My Computer, the drive is labeled in
> blue for some reason.
>
> 2. My new C: has been mapped as a virtual drive as well (G.
>
> I'd like to be able to remove Y: and get rid of G: while making sure
> all the references to G: are moved to C:
>
> Any help would be hugely appreciated!

In the future, if you really feel it necessary to post in more than one
group - please - cross-post instead of multi-posting.

Sounds more like you didn't really upgrade properly - but you did not tell
us much about this supposed upgrade.
It would be most helpful if you would come back and give us more details.

We can assume a few things.

- You have an external drive (USB hard drive, internal or external ZIP or
other removable drive (not CD/DVD), etc) connected to the system.

- You either used some sort of cloning software to clone your original boot
drive to the new drive (but for some reason, did not remove the original
drive after making the image and before applying it to the new drive..)

or

- You left the original drive in, but changed it physically to slave and
attempted to install a clean version of Windows XP onto the new hard drive
with the old hard drive still in.

There's other possibilities - like you started playing with the drive
letters, thinking you could just "make" a new C:, etc..
Please com back and clarify what you did so we can help you correct your
issue.

The "blue" color just means you have compressed files on the drive.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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Apologies to all for the x-posting...didn't know the etiquette (now I
do :P )