How to Make WinXP Boot Drive C:

[Guest]

I copied my C: drive to another drive to back it up, and now Win XP sees it
as the H: drive. How do I rename or cause WinXP to boot on this drive, but
call it C:? It used to boot as C: before I made the backup copy? Right now,
WinXP bopots from the H: drive successfully, but sme software ahs trouble
running on the H: drive. THere is only one partition on this drive, and even
when I remove other drives, it still boots as H:.

HOw do I rename this H: drive so WinXP seees it as C:? I have reflashed the
BIOS and disabled all other drives, so the hardware is not the problem.

 

[John John]

How did you "copy" the drive? If you cloned it then tried to boot from
it with the parent (original) drive still installed then it's normal
that the drive would have been assigned a different drive letter. See
here for instructions:

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/

When you clone a drive before you attemtpt to boot off of it you should
remove/disconnect the parent drive.

John

 

[Guest]

Thanks for yoru reply, John John. I copied the boot drive with Western
DIgital utilities, then attempted to boot off of hte original drive. I even
removed all the other drives from the system, but the original drive insists
on labeling itself H:.

Is this the situttion to which your referenced article applies? If so, how
did the boot drive change letters?

 

[John John]

Did you copy the drive from Windows? Or did you do it from a booted DOS
session? Use the instructions in the article to change it back to "C".

John