Drive letter D rather than C?

[DrB]

Had hard drive failure but had a backup on second drive. When main drive was
replaced loaded Winxp onto it when it was secondary so the drive letter
became D:. Then I switched drive to the new drive was primary but it still
shows up as D: and the secondary as C:. Tried to change drive letter in disk
management but it will not let me change D to C. How do I do it?

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Had hard drive failure but had a backup on second drive. When main drive was
replaced loaded Winxp onto it when it was secondary so the drive letter
became D:. Then I switched drive to the new drive was primary but it still
shows up as D: and the secondary as C:. Tried to change drive letter in disk
management but it will not let me change D to C. How do I do it?

A repair install will usually allow XP to settle down. Remove the other
disk temporarily, then run the repair install and if everything is OK,
reconnect the other disk.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Had hard drive failure but had a backup on second drive. When main drive was
replaced loaded Winxp onto it when it was secondary so the drive letter
became D:. Then I switched drive to the new drive was primary but it still
shows up as D: and the secondary as C:. Tried to change drive letter in disk
management but it will not let me change D to C. How do I do it?

As an alternative to what Kent wrote, if you are sure that your
disk D: has the same and complete content of your former disk
C:, you can use a shortcut described at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDriveLetterChangeSystemPartition.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[DrB]

Thank you for your help. I solved the problem another way by reinstalling
Winxp on the new drive without the old one hooked up. Then when it loaded
with both drives the CD-RW showed as "D" and old drive showed as E. This was
easily corrected in Disk Management. Then I transferred my settings by again
starting up the old drive then switching both again to get the settings.

I did not realize that Winxp can not be copied completely from old to new
drive but had to be reinstalled on the new drive by itself. It sure was much
easier with WinME.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I did not realize that Winxp can not be copied completely from old to new
drive but had to be reinstalled on the new drive by itself. It sure was much
easier with WinME.

There are ways to copy Windows XP completely.
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxMove.htm describes them.

Hans-Georg