cannot make system partition into C drive

[Roger]

Previous setup
(1) 80 gig hard drive w/ (2) partitions:
1-partition was c: drive with o/s
1-partition was f: drive with working files

computer o/s crashed
Luckily I had a backup of the o/s on a 30 gig drive. The other parition
was not affected, even tho that info is backup up on an USB drive.
I was in a time crunch, so I put this 30 gig hard drive in with the 80 gig
drive. Went into computer management and made sure that the partition
mappings were right and I made the 80 gig C: drive a Y: drive and formated
it
(o/s was corrupt).
Since then I "Ghost" the information over from the 30 gig to the 80 gig and
booted up the system. System booted up, but what should have been the C:
drive was now the Y: drive. Since then I put an extra hard drive in the
system, along with the backup 30 gig drive, and the system recognized it as
a D: drive. I then put an operating system on it, and took the 30 gig drive
out and put in the 80 gig drive. The computer booted up and recoginized the
extra drive as D:, as well as the mappings for the 80 gig drive. I went
into computer management and changed the drive mapping, on the 80 gig drive,
to C:. I took out the extra drive, just leaving the 80 gig, and booted up
the system. It recognized it still as the Y: drive.

Hope you understand this. Other than f-disk/repartitioning the 80 gig
drive, is there a way to get the first partition of the 80 gig drive, mapped
to C: instead of Y:?

Thanks
Roger

 

[Larry Gardner]

I believe your problem is that you Ghost'd the partition. If I'm not sure,
Ghost may keep certain information dealing with a bootable partition and
partition information. So it just kept all that info. I think if you would
have left the new partition as C: and Ghost'd from the backup, it may have
stayed C:.

I had this problem with System Commander. My drive was going bad, so I
installed a new drive D: and tried to copy C: to D:, because I did not want
any Bad Sectors to follow over to D:.

No matter what I did, when I rebooted, the drive stayed D:, and anything in
the register pointing to C:\..... failed.

 

[Haggis]

I believe your problem is that you Ghost'd the partition. If I'm not sure,
Ghost may keep certain information dealing with a bootable partition and
partition information. So it just kept all that info. I think if you
would have left the new partition as C: and Ghost'd from the backup, it may
have stayed C:.

I had this problem with System Commander. My drive was going bad, so I
installed a new drive D: and tried to copy C: to D:, because I did not
want any Bad Sectors to follow over to D:.

No matter what I did, when I rebooted, the drive stayed D:, and anything
in the register pointing to C:\..... failed.

you can change your driver lettering here

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

eg. if you want too reverse C: and D: .... change C: to Z: then change D:
to C: ...then change Z: to D:

had to do it for a bunch of cloned machines