Changing Drive Letters 2000 Pro

[Guest]

I cloned the old hard drive on the client's Dell desktop using Norton Ghost.
The clone completed succesfully, but I can't boot on the new drive because
the BIOS on the computer only supports boot drives labeled C:. Since I can't
change the drive letter of the old drive when it's the boot drive, and
Windows won't let me assign the new drive the letter C: when they're both
connected, I'm stuck. Any suggestions? It's a perfectly stable system, I
really don't want to go through the whole rigamarole of installing Windows on
the new drive, drivers, updates, files, etc.
Thanks.

 

[Dave Patrick]

In order for this to work the original system must have been installed to
C:\

How to Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=223188


Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];249321

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|I cloned the old hard drive on the client's Dell desktop using Norton
Ghost.
| The clone completed succesfully, but I can't boot on the new drive because
| the BIOS on the computer only supports boot drives labeled C:. Since I
can't
| change the drive letter of the old drive when it's the boot drive, and
| Windows won't let me assign the new drive the letter C: when they're both
| connected, I'm stuck. Any suggestions? It's a perfectly stable system, I
| really don't want to go through the whole rigamarole of installing Windows
on
| the new drive, drivers, updates, files, etc.
| Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Thanks! I will try this.

Dave

 

[Dave Patrick]

You're welcome

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Thanks! I will try this.
|
| Dave