Restarting apps on a cloned HD. Some problems.

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.

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

--
John

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.

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

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Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
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"Carygee" wrote in message
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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.

EZ Gig II Transfer Utilty - Apricorn

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?

You will likely have to reinstall the program.

--
Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
--------------------------------
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http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"Carygee" wrote in message
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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?