Restarting apps on a cloned HD. Some problems.

[Carygee]

I just upgraded my old 60 GB HD to a newer, faster 60GB via cloning the old
to the new. Partitions are identical in size but somehow got relabelled in
the transition.

Most programs appear to have survived the trip quite admirably. Those that
didn't were brought back to health by reinserting the program CD and hitting
the repair button.

However, there are a few noteable exceptions where inserting the application
CD does not produce a repair option. It seems to my novice mind that when
the old drive was cloned, my 3 partitions, which were formerly C, E and F
(with D being the CD-ROM) are now C, D and E (with F being the CD-ROM) and
therefore the shortcuts both on the desktop and the Start|All Programs are
looking into the old partition (E) when they should be looking into the new
partition (D) for the executable file.

Rather than performing a lobotomy and going the uninstall/reinstall route is
there a simple way to change the shortcut to look for the targeted program
in the new partition F? (Besides, in some cases the uninstall route via
add/remove programs doesn't always work for the same partition reallocation
reason).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Looking for a simple way out.

 

[john]

You don't say how you 'cloned' it.
Most decent Imaging programs ask whether you want it to fix the links.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Drive letters, except for the boot/system drive can be reassigned by right
clicking My Computer, select Manage, Disk Management.

 

[Carygee]

EZ Gig II Transfer Utilty - Apricorn

 

[Carygee]

Interesting. Surely, at this stage with 80% of the apps working in the new
disk environment, if I now reassign the Volume D to (old) E and Volume E to
(old) F and the CD-ROM from F to (old) D, via manage|Disk Mangement, then
I'll have a real mess on my hands?

Getting back to my initial question, how do I get that one CAD application
to look at (new) drive D for the the executable rather than the (old) drive
E?

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You will likely have to reinstall the program.