C:\ became D:\ after ghosting...

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Gene Rofssey

Hi,

After ghosting a Win XP Home disk to a new, bigger drive (on another machine
than the disk originally resided), the OS partition on the new disk had D:\
as drive letter.

However there are hundreds of registry references to C:\.. How do I most
easily change the drive letter to C:\

Thanks for hints on this issue

regards

Gene
 
Hi,

After ghosting a Win XP Home disk to a new, bigger drive (on another machine
than the disk originally resided), the OS partition on the new disk had D:\
as drive letter.

However there are hundreds of registry references to C:\.. How do I most
easily change the drive letter to C:\

Thanks for hints on this issue

regards

Gene
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Hello -
Tru this procedure.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/en-us

Dave
 
I am not clear if you want to change the drive letter or the references in
the registry.
If it is the drive letter, you can do a search on the knowledgebase for
change drive letter system drive
 
Brian A. said:
Right click MyComputer.
Click Manage.
Click Disk Management.
Right click the drive in the right pane and select "Change drive
letter.......".
Click to expand...

Works for everything but the system drive :-|

Will check the above mentioned KB article

regards

Gene
 
Gene Rofssey said:
Hi,

After ghosting a Win XP Home disk to a new, bigger drive (on another
machine
than the disk originally resided), the OS partition on the new disk had
D:\
as drive letter.

However there are hundreds of registry references to C:\.. How do I most
easily change the drive letter to C:\

Thanks for hints on this issue

regards

Gene
Click to expand...


Tru this procedure.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/en-us
Dave


Right click MyComputer.
Click Manage.
Click Disk Management.
Right click the drive in the right pane and select "Change drive
letter.......".
Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }


Gene:
Do I understand you to say that using Symantec's Norton Ghost (you didn't
say it was Norton Ghost, but I guess that's what you used, right? And what
version?) you cloned the contents of your HD to another HD that you obtained
from another computer, right?

Your source disk booted up without incident and functioned properly in all
respects, right? No problems with it at all, yes? And presumably the reason
you were cloning the contents of that disk was to use a larger drive, right?
And your source drive contained only a single C: partition on which, of
course, resided the operating system, yes?

And you're saying that after the cloning operation, the destination drive
was a clone of the source drive, but instead of the C: drive letter
assignment it now contained the D: drive letter, yes? So the only difference
between the source and destinatation drives was that the drive letter had
changed from C: to D:. Is that right?

How did you learn all this? Were you able to boot to the cloned drive? Or
did you install it as a secondary drive to your original HD and you
discovered it had a D: drive letter designation?

And did you try another disk cloning operation? Same results?
Anna

P.S.
The process described in that MS KB article you were referred to applies to
a tiny, tiny number of cases and the other recommendation re using Disk
Management to change a drive letter assignment from D: to C: will not work,
at least it has never worked for us.
 
After you image the smaller disk to the larger drive, but before you boot to
XP, remove the original drive and move the newer larger drive into its
place. At least this has always worked for me, the few times I've tried it.
It has always been easier for me to do a Ghost backup to either CD-RW,
DVD-RW or an external hard drive, then change out the hardware, reboot with
the Ghost CD and restore from the Ghost backup onto the new larger drive.
 
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