Reassignment of Drive

[tpanton]

My configuration is as follows:
EIDE Drive 0 - Master with XP Pro
EIDE Drive 1 - Slave Win 2000 Pro

I recently encoutered the following problem:
When attempting to transfer Drive 0 to a new Drive 1 using
a manufacturers software (Maxtor) my Drive 0 running XP
crashed in the middle of the transfer. Since this happened
my Drive 0 would hang during the boot process with the
screen displaying a light blue background with the XP
logo. I have tried everything to recover the original boot
configuration without success. I replaced the new Drive 1
with the original Drive 1 with Win2000 Pro, then ran the
XP installation and selected Repair ( replacing or
updating only files that are missing or corrupted).
Everything went well, but now my Drive 0 with XP has a
drive letter assigned as "D" permanently (as seen via My
Computer) and is seen as Drive "C" under DOS. I have tried
removing drive 1 leaving only Drive 0 and restarted the XP
installation selecting Repair (replacing or updating only
files that are missing or corrupted). I thought this would
correct the problem, but I was wrong. Even with only Drive
0 installed the drive letter is still showing Drive D
inside of My Computer.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to correct this
problem?

Thank you

 

[dglock]

if you have the drives on different ide channels why do
you have one set as slave?
if there are no other drives in the two channels they
should both be set as master.
don

 

[tpanton]

They are both on the Primary channel, because on the
Secondary channel I have a DVD as the Master and a CDRW a
Slave. Let me explain this better. I had two drives of the
same capacity and need to expand the size of my primary
drive (Drive 0 running XP Pro), so I removed Drive 1
(Win2000) and replaced it with a new Maxtor drive. I then
used a utility from Maxtor to transfer XP to the new
drive, but XP crashed in the middle of the transfer. So I
rebooted the system and XP started hanging as previously
mentioned. So, I reinstalled my second drive (Drive 1 with
Win2000) after trying different recovery procedures and
encountered the problem after trying to repair Drive (with
XP)that I previously stated that I am trying to resolve. I
hope that helps someone assist me in resolving my problem.