Changing drive letter of the boot/WinXP drive/partition

[dave]

Hi,

That seems to have diagnosed the problem however we hadn't got that far
into the re-install so we tried the method GTS suggested and it didn't work
:-(
It may be something to do with us Ghosting the partitions individually
rather than the entire drive ?

Anyway we're now just going to format/reinstall everything on the new drive


bye
Dave

 

[dave]

We tried that and it refuses to change the drive letter.

 

[dave]

Whoops- I should have said - on reboot it's still drive F

 

[dave]

Hi Richard - just to clarify, the first time we tried, we didn't "fdisk"

 

[Ron Martell]

?????????

We tried again:

1. We re-FDISK'ed the destination drive so the boot partition was C
2. We Ghost'd the old drive C across to the new C partition (Ghost 9)
3. We booted the new drive, after bootup and sorting itself WinXP insists
it's drive F not C !!

We've tried this with the new C partition in both NTFS and Fat 32 formats
now with the same results.

We absolutely have to have WinXP on C and there is no room
on the old drive !! Please help !!

Try it one more time with some changes/additions to the procedure.

1. re-FDISK the destination drive to delete all of the partitions on
it. Do not create a new partition. Let Ghost do that when it copies
the old drive.
2. Ghost the old drive C across to the new drive (Ghost 9)
3. Disconnect every repeat every repeat every disk drive in the
computer *except* the new drive and ensure that the new drive is
connected as the boot (e.g. Primary IDE Master).
4. Boot from the new drive.
5. Reconnect the other disk drives.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

 

[GTS]

Try it one more time with some changes/additions to the procedure.

1. re-FDISK the destination drive to delete all of the partitions on
it. Do not create a new partition. Let Ghost do that when it copies
the old drive.
2. Ghost the old drive C across to the new drive (Ghost 9)
3. Disconnect every repeat every repeat every disk drive in the
computer *except* the new drive and ensure that the new drive is
connected as the boot (e.g. Primary IDE Master).
4. Boot from the new drive.
5. Reconnect the other disk drives.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm

Well said Ron. That should work fine.
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[dave]

Thanks for persisting guys, we will try again, we
didn't have the time to re-install so will probably
try what you suggested before bailing out and
doing a complete reinstall of everything
The only thing that worries me is that it was getting
to drive "F" - OK, we had a CD Rom and a Zip drive
but that would only take it to "E" -- is it assigning a
drive letter beyond "B" to the floppy also ? Or is it
finding the USB and assigning a letter to that ?

 

[GTS]

Yes, the USB. Disconnect the USB and zip drives before the first boot.
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Thanks for persisting guys, we will try again, we
didn't have the time to re-install so will probably
try what you suggested before bailing out and
doing a complete reinstall of everything
The only thing that worries me is that it was getting
to drive "F" - OK, we had a CD Rom and a Zip drive
but that would only take it to "E" -- is it assigning a
drive letter beyond "B" to the floppy also ? Or is it
finding the USB and assigning a letter to that ?

 

[dave]

Hi,

In the end we:

1. saved C as a .gho on original partition F (separate drive)
2. Put in new drive instead of original C and installed WinXP
3. Booted new WinXP then used the Ghost floppy
to copy the .gho back from F over the new C from DOS

Worked first time.

Yes, the USB. Disconnect the USB and zip drives before the first boot.
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[GTS]

Sounds good. Thanks for the update.
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Hi,

In the end we:

1. saved C as a .gho on original partition F (separate drive)
2. Put in new drive instead of original C and installed WinXP
3. Booted new WinXP then used the Ghost floppy
to copy the .gho back from F over the new C from DOS

Worked first time.