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Hello Michael,
I'm not a geek so will keep your very thorough email for reference in
the future. thanks.
I seem to recall that Partition Magic has a routine that will rename
drives and then go through an rename all shortcuts and other "file
calls". It has something like this as I did it once and it worked
fine.
Best regards,
Jim Johnson mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Saturday, February 8, 2003, 1:31:19 AM, you wrote:
M> Hi Ian,
M> Bit of a sticky wicket 8^) 20G is a nice boot drive, more than that is
M> data storage which can be on any drive. but as you wish
M> You probably can select which drive the system boots from in the BIOS,
M> select the 40G and install W2K there. The problem though while it's on the
M> physical drive you want, it still won't be C:. Most major programs don't
M> care which drive they're on, they use the variable %SystemRoot% and all is
M> well, but some software though good in other ways has been hard coded for
M> the root to be on C:
M> You can of course set the drive letters to some extent, I like Q for the
M> CD. In W2K that's ControlPanel, AdministrativeTools, ComputerManagement,
M> 2click Storage and DiskManagement. RightClick on stuff there and it will
M> show options like change the letter. Still got a problem, you will not be
M> allowed to change the boot drive's letter.
M> The machine isn't as smart as it thinks it is. It looks for your drives
M> first on the Primary Master, then the Primary Slave, then the Secondary
M> Master, then the Secondary Slave. Hope you're a geek or that could be
M> confusing. The Primary is one of the flat cables to your drives, and the
M> secondary is a separate cable to the drives.
M> You can have 2 drives on each cable, the Master and the Slave, if a drive
M> is a master or slave is determined by jumpers on the drive. Just to
M> complicate or simplify depending on the situation, you can also run cable
M> select. From the model numbers of your drives we can find where the
M> jumpers should be.
M> What I think needs done, if you're game 8^>
M> Backup, though you haven't said anything that indicates a format is
M> necessary, and there should be no data loss if everything goes
M> perfectly. Still I would at least duplicate my most critical files on both
M> drives.
M> Then rearrange the cables and jumpers so the 60G is on the Primary Master,
M> and the 20G is either the slave or on the other cable. Set the BIOS to
M> boot from the Primary Master, the BIOS may call it HD0. Then do a clean
M> install (not a repair) of W2K on the 60G.
M> When it comes up you should be able to go into DiskManager and see the 60G
M> is drive C: and the boot drive. Also RClick MyComputer, Properties,
M> Advanced, EnvironmentVaribles, and you should see a lot of stuff all
M> directed to C: With that the system is right, you can proceed to reinstall
M> programs.
M> If you don't need the space on the 20G I would leave windows installed on
M> it. If the 60G ever crashes then even if you have to swap stuff around you
M> can boot from the 20G, a nice option to have.
M> If anyone knows an easier way I would like to know too.
M> Mike
M> At 2/7/2003 03:59 AM, you wrote:
>>I have two harddrives, 40 Gig and 20 gig, I wanted the 40 gig to be my
>>c:\, but
>>that turned out to be the 20gig, the Win 2000 was installed on the 40 gig in
>>drive E as drive d was taken by the cd rom.
>>
>>How do swap around the E (ie 40 gig ) to the C:\ which is the 20 gig...HELP
>>
>>Ian
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