How to re-assign drives

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I have 2 hard drives, one for OS/software, the other for data.

I re-installed XP recently and now my data drive is C: and my OS drive is
E:.

Is there a clean way to re-assign them so that the OS drive is C:?

I'm worried about future software installations and other references that
default to the C: drive.

If I can re-assign, should I be worried about drive paths hard-coded after
I've installed software?

Thx
 
No, you can't reassign the drive as you suggest but you can swap the
drive and it should work. You need to pen your case to do this. Also,
you need to swap the pin settings from slave (OS drive) becomes master
and the data drive becomes slave. Make sure you do this correctly
unless you want to lose your data!

hth
 
From: "Hall" <[email protected]>

| I have 2 hard drives, one for OS/software, the other for data.
|
| I re-installed XP recently and now my data drive is C: and my OS drive is
| E:.
|
| Is there a clean way to re-assign them so that the OS drive is C:?
|
| I'm worried about future software installations and other references that
| default to the C: drive.
|
| If I can re-assign, should I be worried about drive paths hard-coded after
| I've installed software?
|
| Thx
|

Do that and the Registry would point to the wrong location and the OS will be corrupted.

I suggest disabling the data drive, such as removing the power cable, so the only hard disk
seen by any OS is the OS drive and it will be seen as a "C:" drive and then reinstall the OS
from scratch again.

Once completed, re-enable the data drive and the OS ( C: ) will see the data drive as "E:"
again.

I ran into that problem with Dell systems using an IDE ZIP 250MB drive. Reinstalling the OS
from scratch with the ZIP drive disabled corrected the problem.
 
Wow, I really thought there was a way to do this without having to
re-install. Well thanks. I won't spend another 15 hours to rebuild the
system just for this.
 
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