Reassigning drive letter for new hard drive

[Kevin Jones]

Tried to replace my boot hard drive.
I used BootitNG to do a disk copy of the C: drive to my new drive.
Removed the old drive, replaced it with the new drive, and booted.
Came up to the windows login screen, but no accounts shown, and
no way to log on. Had same results trying to boot into safe mode.
Added old drive back in on the secondary IDE cable and booted
up. This time everything was OK. Turns out XP assigned my new
drive the letter F, and retained C for the old drive. Cannot use disk
manager to change the letters because both are identified as system
drives and XP will not let me change the letters.

I've seen others report similar problems, but have yet to find a post
describing how to replace the drives and get XP to assign the new
drive as C.

Any and all help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin.

p.s., please post results, email return address is bogus.

 

[Ron Sommer]

news://terabyteunlimited.com/public.apps.bootitng
You may need to change the port under Tools, Accounts, News tab,
......Advanced tab to 1198

Was the drive formatted primary and set to active?

 

[toddkozi]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;249321
Resolution method 5 seems like a good way to go, if possible.
-
Todd

Tried to replace my boot hard drive.
I used BootitNG to do a disk copy of the C: drive to my new drive.
Removed the old drive, replaced it with the new drive, and booted.
Came up to the windows login screen, but no accounts shown, and
no way to log on. Had same results trying to boot into safe mode.
Added old drive back in on the secondary IDE cable and booted
up. This time everything was OK. Turns out XP assigned my new
drive the letter F, and retained C for the old drive. Cannot use disk
manager to change the letters because both are identified as system
drives and XP will not let me change the letters.

I've seen others report similar problems, but have yet to find a post
describing how to replace the drives and get XP to assign the new
drive as C.