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Re-naming primary partition
I've just done a clean re-install of WinXP Home and have finished up with my
primary disc, windows programme disc, as drive D. which I don't want but am a bit reluctant to mess with. I have a sata 200 Gb drive which was formatted into two halves. Drive c was windows and other programmes, drive d was data files. I had problems with NVIDIA drivers which wouldn't go away so I zapped drive c , reformatted it and re-installed winXP. When the dust settled it finished up as drive d and the old drive d, data disc, is now drive c. This may or may not cause confusion in the future since many applications assume that Drive c is the root drive. I don't know this but I assume that when windows installed, it hard coded the path of all its constituent parts in the registry to drive d and this would cause me much grief if I just renamed the two partitions. I am not keen to start from scratch and reformat both partitions and re-install Windows again so can anybody give me a steer on what the best way forward might be. Many thanks. |
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With a hd in several partitions,you should have all but the partition for
C: in a "raw" format when installing windows.After windows is installed, simply format the others. "Visitor No 3" wrote: I've just done a clean re-install of WinXP Home and have finished up with my primary disc, windows programme disc, as drive D. which I don't want but am a bit reluctant to mess with. I have a sata 200 Gb drive which was formatted into two halves. Drive c was windows and other programmes, drive d was data files. I had problems with NVIDIA drivers which wouldn't go away so I zapped drive c , reformatted it and re-installed winXP. When the dust settled it finished up as drive d and the old drive d, data disc, is now drive c. This may or may not cause confusion in the future since many applications assume that Drive c is the root drive. I don't know this but I assume that when windows installed, it hard coded the path of all its constituent parts in the registry to drive d and this would cause me much grief if I just renamed the two partitions. I am not keen to start from scratch and reformat both partitions and re-install Windows again so can anybody give me a steer on what the best way forward might be. Many thanks. |
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"Andrew E." wrote in message ... With a hd in several partitions,you should have all but the partition for C: in a "raw" format when installing windows.After windows is installed, simply format the others. That worked fine. Thanks Ian Millward Edinburgh |
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Re-naming primary partition
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 15:48:01 -0700, Andrew E.
With a hd in several partitions,you should have all but the partition for C: in a "raw" format when installing windows.After windows is installed, simply format the others. That may help, but shouldn't be (and usually isn't) necessary. It's a good thing to try here, though, because there may be some content (volume label or serial number, particular files, etc.) in the volumes other than what should be C: that is making them appear to be C: Also, make sure you don't leave any removable disks, USB sticks, etc,. in place when you install Windows (other than the Windows CD). ------------ ----- --- -- - - - - Drugs are usually safe. Inject? (Y/n) ------------ ----- --- -- - - - - |
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Andrew E. wrote:
With a hd in several partitions,you should have all but the partition for C: in a "raw" format when installing windows.After windows is installed, simply format the others. "Visitor No 3" wrote: I've just done a clean re-install of WinXP Home and have finished up with my primary disc, windows programme disc, as drive D. which I don't want but am a bit reluctant to mess with. I have a sata 200 Gb drive which was formatted into two halves. Drive c was windows and other programmes, drive d was data files. I had problems with NVIDIA drivers which wouldn't go away so I zapped drive c , reformatted it and re-installed winXP. When the dust settled it finished up as drive d and the old drive d, data disc, is now drive c. This may or may not cause confusion in the future since many applications assume that Drive c is the root drive. I don't know this but I assume that when windows installed, it hard coded the path of all its constituent parts in the registry to drive d and this would cause me much grief if I just renamed the two partitions. I am not keen to start from scratch and reformat both partitions and re-install Windows again so can anybody give me a steer on what the best way forward might be. Many thanks. I differ with you on that. My experience is that all other partitions stay as the format they were in. NTFS, FAT32, etc. The only one that is 'RAW' is the system, and only if you deleted the old partition. Then in reinstalling the OS that partition is reformatted before installing. The letters should NOT change, unless somehow the system rebooted during the initial delete partition, and remake partition. If that happened, then you should NOT change the letters. Names can vary (Ex. thielsen, nelsen, etc.), but usually not the letters. In the programs themselves, the data folders/drives can be set for the letter (in this case C, then the specific folder/subfolder on that logical drive, providing that drive isn't corrupted. -- Lester Stiefel In Romans 1 there are qualities of Unregenerate man listed which describe him in the last days. Is your quality found on this list?? |
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