Adding another hard drive question

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I am thinking about adding another harddrive to my WinXP system. The
present drive has several partitions on it. The OS on C: and most of
my other apps on the different partitions. Will adding another drive
change the labelling on the other partitions and the CD and DVD rom
drives? If so will I need to re-install my apps?
Thanks for any help,
Hal
 
I am thinking about adding another harddrive to my WinXP system. The
present drive has several partitions on it. The OS on C: and most of
my other apps on the different partitions. Will adding another drive
change the labelling on the other partitions and the CD and DVD rom
drives? If so will I need to re-install my apps?
Thanks for any help,
Hal
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The drive will take the next letter after your present drive unless
you partition it as an extended partition.
http://www.hildrum.com/harddriveadd.html
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Greetings...

I am thinking about adding another harddrive to my WinXP system. The
present drive has several partitions on it. The OS on C: and most of
my other apps on the different partitions. Will adding another drive
change the labelling on the other partitions and the CD and DVD rom
drives? If so will I need to re-install my apps?
Thanks for any help,
Hal
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YES... The new HD will now be drive D and all the others will be bumped up a letter.

SO:

After you install, before you do ANYTHING - go into your system properties, and set the
drive letter for the new drive as the last letter or whatever you want... Then reboot.

Or you can do it the hard way - copy all your app folders to the new drive and clear
off the old partition... But any shortcuts you have to any of the other drives will have
to be repaired too....

Whatever you do, DO NOT RUN any registry cleaners before you do this.... You will
totally screw your registry!!!


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I would recommend making notes of what drive letter is being used for each
partition. You can always correct the drive letters after installing the
new drive if needed.

I know someone who used both primary and secondary IDE's. He then decided
to add a tape backup drive. He removed one of the drives to connect the
tape drive. Then he later noticed some programs didn't work. He had loaded
software accross every drive. Then he ran Norton Disk Doctor with the drive
letters all scrambled and that finished the whole mess. He had to clean all
drives and start over. The registry everything was a mess. I told him all
he had to do was change the drive letters to the correct drive letter after
reconnecting the disconnected drive. Too late.
 
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