My Windows XP is Now in Drive L:! Please Help.

[maria]

Please be kind enough to help me with the following.
Somehow, I lost Partitions C: and D: on my machine.
I could not repair the Windows XP in Partition C:.
So, I setup the Windows XP again, but now it is in ... Drive L:!
Fortunately, I had backed up everything two days ago
into Acronis Images in an external drive.
Here are my questions:

In the new setup, the drive C: is still there! The Windows XP
is in Drive L:. I want to restore my backup image of the Drive
C: back into the current drive C:. What would happen if I did that?
Or, in other words, what is the best way to restore my old drive
C: into the new (just formatted) drive C: and get rid of the
Windows XP in drive L:?
I would really appreciate your kind help.
Thank you!

maria

 

[Rod Speed]

Somehow, I lost Partitions C: and D: on my machine.
I could not repair the Windows XP in Partition C:.
So, I setup the Windows XP again, but now it is in ... Drive L:!
Fortunately, I had backed up everything two days
ago into Acronis Images in an external drive.

Presumably before it fell over.

Here are my questions:

In the new setup, the drive C: is still there! The Windows XP
is in Drive L:. I want to restore my backup image of the Drive
C: back into the current drive C:. What would happen if I did that?
Or, in other words, what is the best way to restore
my old drive C: into the new (just formatted) drive C:

Just restore it using the image of that partition.

There was no need to format it.

and get rid of the Windows XP in drive L:?

Just delete it. Safest to format that partition.

You need to consider why you lost the partitions C and D tho, that
may be an intermittent hardware problem that can occur again.

 

[maria]

Presumably before it fell over.



Just restore it using the image of that partition.

There was no need to format it.


Just delete it. Safest to format that partition.

You need to consider why you lost the partitions C and D tho, that
may be an intermittent hardware problem that can occur again.

Thank you, Rod. I already did exactly that, and it worked.
The partitions were lost after a complication that occured when
I started running a new program. I had nothing to do
with the data loss. I brought the two partitions back, from
the Acronis TIs, and deleted the program in question.

maria