Problem when removing HDD

[Matrix]

I have 2 HDDs on my PC,
1st: Drive C,E,F
2nd: Drive D,G

I have windows XP Pro installed on Drive E.
And now I need to remove the 2nd HDD. But when I do that,
my drive E will become drive D.
And all the data including the registry are set to read
from drive E.
Will my windows work after the drive letter will change?
What can I do to make sure that my windows will work
without reformating or reinstalling windows on the new
drive D?

 

[Richard Urban]

Nothing! You will have to perform a repair install.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Bob Day]

I have 2 HDDs on my PC,
1st: Drive C,E,F
2nd: Drive D,G

I have windows XP Pro installed on Drive E.
And now I need to remove the 2nd HDD. But when I do that,
my drive E will become drive D.
And all the data including the registry are set to read
from drive E.
Will my windows work after the drive letter will change?
What can I do to make sure that my windows will work
without reformating or reinstalling windows on the new
drive D?

Use "Disk Management" to assign the drive letter: right click
on "My Computer", then click on "Manage", and then on
"Disk Management".

-- Bob Day
http://bobday.vze.com

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Two questions:

First, I'm not getting how he is supposed to assign a drive letter to
it. If that is the partition with Windows, it isn't possible to change
this drive letter is it? I guess you could reassign drive letters in a
way that your F becomes your D, and unassign drive letters for the
second drive. Then reboot and see what happens. But even then, on reboot
if it tries to reassign your drive letters, it may get messed up.

Second, couldn't he just edit the boot.ini file so that it searches for
the second partition on the first harddisk (or isn't that what it
already is set to?) I wonder if Windows will actually reassign D: to
that drive.

You can try all of these ways and if nothign works, then just do a
repair installation

Nathan McNulty