Switching Drive Letters

[Dingo]

Hi. If I copy my old drive to a second hard drive and make it the
Master, can I change the drive letter to 'C' after I format the original
one? Thanks. Dingo

 

[Tim Slattery]

Hi. If I copy my old drive to a second hard drive and make it the
Master, can I change the drive letter to 'C' after I format the original
one?

The drive on which the XP operating system resides will always be C:,
that cannot be changed. You can assign any letter to any other drives.

So, connect the new disk as a slave and copy everything from the old
one to it. Then shut down the machine, make the new one the master and
the old one the slave. The machine should now boot from the new disk,
and you can do whatever you want to the old one.

 

[Josh]

If its a primary partition and you make it the master drive it will
automaticly become c:

 

[Alex Nichol]

If I copy my old drive to a second hard drive and make it the
Master, can I change the drive letter to 'C' after I format the original
one?

Drive letters are not absolute; but assigned as the system boots.
Provided to make a true copy of the entire partition as an Image, not
file by file, arrange to write the needed MBR code on the drive and then
plug it in in the same way the original was, so it is the one that gets
booted, it will come up as C: without any other action needed

 

[Dingo]

Thanks guys. You all agree. Sounds good to me. Dingo