new hard drive

[Monark]

Mike:

I am having the same problem. No answers yet, but my post
is "hard drive replacement" from Sept 14 around 6:30pm if
you want to monitor any responses!


>-----Original Message-----
>Can anyone tell me how to make windows XP recognise a new
>or different hard drive after instalation. I installed XP
>to a D drive and now I want to remove the old drive and
>make the D drive my C drive. Thanks for any help Mike
>.
>

[Tasioulis George]

The whole thing is a bit tricky... :-)

First of all Windows WILL work on every drive letter you install it so you
don't have to worry about chaning it for D: to C:
The problem is in your Program Files... every program installation uses
drive letters so if for example you have a game installed, it will only work
if it is beeing run from drive D:
There is where Partition Magic 8 comes :-)

Theres a tool called DriveMapper or LetterMapper or something like this...
This tool will change all records of programs from a drive to another.
So the only thing you have to do is use a hard disk clone program like
Norton Ghost to copy files from partition D to partition C.

Also then you will have to use the recovery console from your windows xp cd
and run the commands:

fixboot
fixmbr

to recreate the boot files (since they will get erased from the hard disk
cloning)

Anyway as stated above the whole thing is very tricky and I don't recommend
it to novice users.

If you have any other questions please just reply.


George
"Monark" > wrote in message
...
> Mike:
>
> I am having the same problem. No answers yet, but my post
> is "hard drive replacement" from Sept 14 around 6:30pm if
> you want to monitor any responses!
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Can anyone tell me how to make windows XP recognise a new
> >or different hard drive after instalation. I installed XP
> >to a D drive and now I want to remove the old drive and
> >make the D drive my C drive. Thanks for any help Mike
> >.
> >