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Had to reinstall windows. My hard drive is partitioned to C and D. After
reinstalling, my drives were switched. Now C is the huge drive that is supposed to contain backups, and D is a much smaller partition. JS |
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JS,
When you re-installed Windows you had the option to choose the correct partition, which you obviously never did. So, I guess you have lost your backups due to formatting the wrong partition Right-click MY COMPUTER & choose MANAGE Click on Disc Management Right-click C & choose a letter not used Right-click D & choose drive letter C Right-click your original drive C & change to D Then set C to the primary partition I hope this helps, -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) |
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Windows will not let me change c (system volume) drive first. Will let me
change d drive but says I may lose some programs "Newbie Coder" wrote: JS, When you re-installed Windows you had the option to choose the correct partition, which you obviously never did. So, I guess you have lost your backups due to formatting the wrong partition Right-click MY COMPUTER & choose MANAGE Click on Disc Management Right-click C & choose a letter not used Right-click D & choose drive letter C Right-click your original drive C & change to D Then set C to the primary partition I hope this helps, -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) |
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JS wrote:
Had to reinstall windows. "Had to"" Why? Hardly anybody ever has to, and in fact, doing so is usually a mistake. My hard drive is partitioned to C and D. After reinstalling, my drives were switched. Now C is the huge drive that is supposed to contain backups, and D is a much smaller partition. JS And? Why is that a problem? I take it that Windows is installed on D:. There's no special drive it needs to be on. I have it installed on F:, with no problems at all as a result. You can change the drive letters of any drive except the one Windows is installed on, The only way to change that is by reinstalling. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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"Newbie Coder" wrote
JS, When you re-installed Windows you had the option to choose the correct partition, which you obviously never did. So, I guess you have lost your backups due to formatting the wrong partition Right-click MY COMPUTER & choose MANAGE Click on Disc Management Right-click C & choose a letter not used Right-click D & choose drive letter C Right-click your original drive C & change to D Then set C to the primary partition You can't change the drive letter assigned to either the boot or system volumes. -- Rock [MVP - User/Shell] |
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"JS" wrote
Had to reinstall windows. My hard drive is partitioned to C and D. After reinstalling, my drives were switched. Now C is the huge drive that is supposed to contain backups, and D is a much smaller partition. JS Redo the install and make sure it's a clean install. Boot from the XP installation CD, and delete the partition that you want XP on, then install, then create a new one there, format and install XP to that. See this link for how to do a clean install. http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html -- Rock [MVP - User/Shell] |
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The losing of some programs is due to you having installed or backed up to
this drive Not in your case, but you get the same error message if you install from a CD/DVD ROM & then change the drive because if it needs a file the install location is saved in the registry To change C you need to de-activate the volume firts as its the active partition. Maybe using FDISK is a better option because it works at a lower level, but if you do something wrong with that utility then you could wipe your entire partition. -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) |
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Rock
If you boot from the Installation CD you cannot delete C because its in use The OP originally said he doesn't have a CD ROM. How do you boot from a CD ROM if you don't have a CD ROM drive installed? LOL To do a clean install is easy. Why do you have to point the OP to a link? -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) |
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Newbie Coder wrote:
JS, Right-click MY COMPUTER & choose MANAGE Click on Disc Management Right-click C & choose a letter not used Right-click D & choose drive letter C Right-click your original drive C & change to D Then set C to the primary partition The poster will not be able to do that, try it for yourself and see. John |
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The original poster said nothing about not having a CD-ROM. If you boot
with the Windows (Installation) cd you can delete ALL the partitions on the disk provided that they are not special partitions created by third party tools. Where do you get the idea that any partition will be in use if you boot with the Windows CD? John Newbie Coder wrote: Rock If you boot from the Installation CD you cannot delete C because its in use The OP originally said he doesn't have a CD ROM. How do you boot from a CD ROM if you don't have a CD ROM drive installed? LOL To do a clean install is easy. Why do you have to point the OP to a link? |
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I disagree about deleting all partitions etc
If you try that in XP when you have a previous version of XP on C it will say C is in use & you cannot format... it Ghosting is so much easier providing you have a clean image that has been sys prepped -- Newbie Coder (It's just a name) |
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No one said any thing about deleting the partitions while you are booted
to Windows. You won't be able to format or delete the System and Boot volumes while you are booted to Windows, if you boot with your Windows cd and chose to install Windows you will be able to delete any or all the partitions on the disk, and then create new ones and format them. John Newbie Coder wrote: I disagree about deleting all partitions etc If you try that in XP when you have a previous version of XP on C it will say C is in use & you cannot format... it Ghosting is so much easier providing you have a clean image that has been sys prepped |
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"Newbie Coder"
Rock If you boot from the Installation CD you cannot delete C because its in use Of course you can. You can delete the partition on which the OS is installed from the XP installation CD. You can delete any partition from there. What you cannot do is format or delete it from within windows. The OP originally said he doesn't have a CD ROM. How do you boot from a CD ROM if you don't have a CD ROM drive installed? LOL The OP never stated they didn't have a CD drive. What exactly are you talking about? To do a clean install is easy. Why do you have to point the OP to a link? There are many issues to consider when doing a clean install. The link I gave the OP is a very nice step by step guide to it. I suggest you spend a bit more time lurking in these newsgroups to learn some things before posting again, and showing how little you do know. -- Rock [MVP - User/Shell] |
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new installation verry difficult with XP insert cd install -enter- new
install - enter, and watch, overwrites all. "Rock" wrote: "Newbie Coder" Rock If you boot from the Installation CD you cannot delete C because its in use Of course you can. You can delete the partition on which the OS is installed from the XP installation CD. You can delete any partition from there. What you cannot do is format or delete it from within windows. The OP originally said he doesn't have a CD ROM. How do you boot from a CD ROM if you don't have a CD ROM drive installed? LOL The OP never stated they didn't have a CD drive. What exactly are you talking about? To do a clean install is easy. Why do you have to point the OP to a link? There are many issues to consider when doing a clean install. The link I gave the OP is a very nice step by step guide to it. I suggest you spend a bit more time lurking in these newsgroups to learn some things before posting again, and showing how little you do know. -- Rock [MVP - User/Shell] |
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