Charles Tomaras
December 7th 03, 12:16 AM
I had the "great idea" to install a new SATA drive as my system drive. I
used a utility called Copy Commander from Vcom to clone my existing drive to
my new SATA drive which I had formatted and made active in XP disc
management. I did not assign a drive letter to this new drive. The copy
commander cloning process was done from a boot disc outside of windows. One
of the options that I checked was to copy the SID to the new drive. Anyway
to make a long story short...
The copy proceeded correctly. When I rebooted the SATA drive was now labled
"H" and I can't run my original "C" installation of XP without the new H
drive being there as well. Even with the H drive installed I get a system
error when I try to access system restore and for some reason I can't access
any MS web sites without an IE crash. I can access all other sites in IE.
If I try to run off of the H clone drive alone I have none of my system
settings, desktop, accounts etc.
Both drives are now labeled as System Drives and both are active so I can't
rename or make changes from within windows. It seems some of my applications
are referring to the H drive and some to the C drive for data and the such.
Any ideas for easily pointing everything back to my original C drive or
rectifying the situation without a reinstall?
Thanks!
Charles Tomaras
Seattle, WA
used a utility called Copy Commander from Vcom to clone my existing drive to
my new SATA drive which I had formatted and made active in XP disc
management. I did not assign a drive letter to this new drive. The copy
commander cloning process was done from a boot disc outside of windows. One
of the options that I checked was to copy the SID to the new drive. Anyway
to make a long story short...
The copy proceeded correctly. When I rebooted the SATA drive was now labled
"H" and I can't run my original "C" installation of XP without the new H
drive being there as well. Even with the H drive installed I get a system
error when I try to access system restore and for some reason I can't access
any MS web sites without an IE crash. I can access all other sites in IE.
If I try to run off of the H clone drive alone I have none of my system
settings, desktop, accounts etc.
Both drives are now labeled as System Drives and both are active so I can't
rename or make changes from within windows. It seems some of my applications
are referring to the H drive and some to the C drive for data and the such.
Any ideas for easily pointing everything back to my original C drive or
rectifying the situation without a reinstall?
Thanks!
Charles Tomaras
Seattle, WA