Hard Drive Upgrade

[Guest]

After installing a Maxtor 120gb HD to replace the original 40gb drive, the
new drive is seen as Primary 0 but the drive letter assigned to it is F, not
C. I used MaxBlast3 to copy the original drive to the new drive. If I go to
"Disk Management", I am not allowed to change the drive letter of the F drive
because Windows recognizes it as the boot or system drive. D and E are
assigned to my DVD and CD drives, respectively.What is the solution to this
problem?

 

[Jerry]

When you installed the new drive and did the MaxBlast thing you made one
error; you should have removed the CD and DVD drives so that the drive
letters would not be screwed with.

 

[Santa]

When you installed the new drive and did the MaxBlast thing you made one
error; you should have removed the CD and DVD drives so that the drive
letters would not be screwed with.

I never did that !!! Both of my cd drives were hooked up,, and my HD
came out as c:

Maybe he had the NEW hd hooked up as MASTER and the old drive as a
Slave... I think it is suppose to be OLD DRIVE as MASTER NEW drive as
Slave.. For Cloning

Then you remove the old drive From the SYSTEM and set the NEW drive as
MASTER ,, NEVER put that old Drive Back in, Because it is STILL Bootable
until you FDISK and Reformat it

 

[Carl lackey]

After installing a Maxtor 120gb HD to replace the original 40gb drive, the
new drive is seen as Primary 0 but the drive letter assigned to it is F, not
C. I used MaxBlast3 to copy the original drive to the new drive. If I go to
"Disk Management", I am not allowed to change the drive letter of the F drive
because Windows recognizes it as the boot or system drive. D and E are
assigned to my DVD and CD drives, respectively.What is the solution to this
problem?

Are you aware that you can change drive letter assignments?

On the My Computer desktop object, RMB (right mouse button) on My
Computer and select "Manage".

Now select "Disk Managment".

I sure hope you partitioned you new hard drive!!!. Been there. Done
that. Trust me.

Carl

 

[Georges Jullien]

After installing a Maxtor 120gb HD to replace the original 40gb drive, the
new drive is seen as Primary 0 but the drive letter assigned to it is F, not
C. I used MaxBlast3 to copy the original drive to the new drive. If I go to
"Disk Management", I am not allowed to change the drive letter of the F drive
because Windows recognizes it as the boot or system drive. D and E are
assigned to my DVD and CD drives, respectively.What is the solution to this
problem?

Boot on F in safe mode and use the Knowledge Base article Q223188
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q223188 to swap the
letters C and F ( regedit : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, right
click on volume, choose rename C to Z, F to C, Z to F, reboot). Any other
operation may corrupt both systems.
If you add the correct line in boot.ini the XP boot menu will propose the
choice to boot on the original C/F partition or on the copied F/C partition.
http://perso.numericable.fr/gjullien/copy_xp.htm gives information to copy
XP systems.
Georges Jullien

 

[Guest]

I had something like this the other day when I installed a 250GB Maxtor in
place of the original 60GB Maxtor, which I then bumped down to act as a
slave. Not only did the new boot partition get renamed to some other letter
but the machine still insisted on booting to the old C drive although it was
jumpered to slave.

This was solved by rebooting after I had removed the old 60 GB disk. The
new boot partition was correctly given as C with the program and data
partitions on the same disk being correctly allocated E & F respectively. I
then rehooked up the 60GB disk and this one came up with the, again, correct
partitions of D & G.

Then I found it impossible to get rid of the old Windows installation on the
now D drive and the My Documents folder on the G. I used MaxBlast 3 to whack
those and reformat the disk. It works properly now.........

 

[Guest]

After installing a Maxtor 120gb HD to replace the original 40gb drive, the
new drive is seen as Primary 0 but the drive letter assigned to it is F, not
C. I used MaxBlast3 to copy the original drive to the new drive. If I go to
"Disk Management", I am not allowed to change the drive letter of the F drive
because Windows recognizes it as the boot or system drive. D and E are
assigned to my DVD and CD drives, respectively.What is the solution to this
problem?

 

[Guest]

When you installed the new drive and did the MaxBlast thing you made one
error; you should have removed the CD and DVD drives so that the drive
letters would not be screwed with.



I extend my thanks and appreciation to all who replied in response to my problem. Actually, I resolved the problem by accessing Maxtor's website support and located a specific Windows version of Maxblast.. when i formatted and copied the data from my original drive using this program rather the non-specific version supplied with the drive, the problem was resolved.