Pete
April 26th 03, 04:33 PM
Hello.
I'm running Windows XP Pro SP1. Hard Drive issue pertains
to Western Digital 180 Gig IDE attached to a Promise
ULTRA100 TX2 (with the BIOS Upgraded to support dives
larger than 137 GB.)
My HDD failed, partially, and I recieved a replacement
drive via an advance ship RMA. My system partition and
one of the extended volumes are formated NTFS. The third
partition is presently FAT32.
I used Data Lifeguard tools to do a sector by sector image
(Similar to Ghost or Driver Image), I ended up with drive
letter problems.
With mine, the newly imaged drive (hereafter referred to
as Master) was assigned drive letters I (system
Partition), J, & K. The Dying HDD still maintained it's
original drive letters of C, E, & F despite being
connected as a slave.
I opened disk manager and assigned the slave drive E & F
partitions new drive letters (Y & Z) then removed the
pagefile from C. After rebooting, I assigned Drive
letters E & F to J & K (On the Master.) So far, so good.
Here's where the problems began.
When I changed the Slave drive letter C to X (to make C
available to the new HDD) and rebooted, Windows XP was
unable to access the registration information and would
not allow me to log in. I tried to replace the MBR 1st,
but this did not help. I was afraid to replace the entire
boot record from thew management console because of a
warning about non-standard partitions and the possibility
of making all volumes innaccessible. I had to run the
Data Lifeguard tools again in order to copy the I
partition on the master back over the former C partition
on the slave. This permitted me to access the OS again.
Next, I ran XP setup from the OS while it was accessible.
When the system rebooted for the 1st time, I powered off
and disconnected the slave drive, then resumed setup.
Setup completed successfully, and I could now access the
OS from the new drive exclusively. So far, so good.
The remaining problem, however, is that my system
partition remains named "I." I am unable to change the
drive letter because it is the System partition which is
in use.
Can anyone suggest how to correct this problem? I have
the follwing tools available:
Ghost, Data LifeGuard tools, Partition Magic 8, and NTFS
Pro (which allows me to mount the NTFS Volumes from a dos
boot disk and run DOS commands, much like the recovery
Console.
I still have the old drive (Slave) although it does
experience intermittent read errors. I have not yet
deleted the System partition in case I need it. I really
want to end up with the system partition omn the new drive
as C, not I. At this time I am unable to access many
programs that refer to the C drive.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Pete
I'm running Windows XP Pro SP1. Hard Drive issue pertains
to Western Digital 180 Gig IDE attached to a Promise
ULTRA100 TX2 (with the BIOS Upgraded to support dives
larger than 137 GB.)
My HDD failed, partially, and I recieved a replacement
drive via an advance ship RMA. My system partition and
one of the extended volumes are formated NTFS. The third
partition is presently FAT32.
I used Data Lifeguard tools to do a sector by sector image
(Similar to Ghost or Driver Image), I ended up with drive
letter problems.
With mine, the newly imaged drive (hereafter referred to
as Master) was assigned drive letters I (system
Partition), J, & K. The Dying HDD still maintained it's
original drive letters of C, E, & F despite being
connected as a slave.
I opened disk manager and assigned the slave drive E & F
partitions new drive letters (Y & Z) then removed the
pagefile from C. After rebooting, I assigned Drive
letters E & F to J & K (On the Master.) So far, so good.
Here's where the problems began.
When I changed the Slave drive letter C to X (to make C
available to the new HDD) and rebooted, Windows XP was
unable to access the registration information and would
not allow me to log in. I tried to replace the MBR 1st,
but this did not help. I was afraid to replace the entire
boot record from thew management console because of a
warning about non-standard partitions and the possibility
of making all volumes innaccessible. I had to run the
Data Lifeguard tools again in order to copy the I
partition on the master back over the former C partition
on the slave. This permitted me to access the OS again.
Next, I ran XP setup from the OS while it was accessible.
When the system rebooted for the 1st time, I powered off
and disconnected the slave drive, then resumed setup.
Setup completed successfully, and I could now access the
OS from the new drive exclusively. So far, so good.
The remaining problem, however, is that my system
partition remains named "I." I am unable to change the
drive letter because it is the System partition which is
in use.
Can anyone suggest how to correct this problem? I have
the follwing tools available:
Ghost, Data LifeGuard tools, Partition Magic 8, and NTFS
Pro (which allows me to mount the NTFS Volumes from a dos
boot disk and run DOS commands, much like the recovery
Console.
I still have the old drive (Slave) although it does
experience intermittent read errors. I have not yet
deleted the System partition in case I need it. I really
want to end up with the system partition omn the new drive
as C, not I. At this time I am unable to access many
programs that refer to the C drive.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Pete