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Changing Drive Location by .blade// on 12-26-2004 at 06:33 PM
Well I'm going to pull my 120 GB HDD (C:\) to put in my new computer, but for the PC to boot I have to have my 80GB HDD set as C:\. How would I rename it?
RE: Changing Drive Location by Plik on 12-26-2004 at 09:18 PM
Look at madman66's reply to Drive Letter Associations
RE: Changing Drive Location by KeyStorm on 12-26-2004 at 09:38 PM
Indeed, Windows will change the drive name itself. C: will be the drive that booted and the other will be the next available letter.
After that you may change the letters using the partition handler in windows.
If you wanna boot from the 120Gib drive, plug it to the primary master IDE/ATA location.
RE: Changing Drive Location by .blade// on 12-26-2004 at 10:29 PM
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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Indeed, Windows will change the drive name itself. C: will be the drive that booted and the other will be the next available letter.
After that you may change the letters using the partition handler in windows.
If you wanna boot from the 120Gib drive, plug it to the primary master IDE/ATA location.
This doesn't work
. neither does what Madman suggested
RE: Changing Drive Location by KeyStorm on 12-26-2004 at 10:53 PM
Can you explain it more clearly, then? I think we both didn't understand what are you trying to achieve? What's to boot, what's to change, etc?
RE: Changing Drive Location by .blade// on 12-27-2004 at 12:24 AM
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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Can you explain it more clearly, then? I think we both didn't understand what are you trying to achieve? What's to boot, what's to change, etc?
I needed to change D:\ from slave to primary (single). Blah, after an hour of tinkering I fixed it...sort of
RE: Changing Drive Location by Titty on 12-27-2004 at 12:28 AM
I dont know if I'll be much of help but I have master and slave hdd's..
When I looked on the back of the hardrive, theres usually directions
on what little plug thing will set one as master and one as slave... ?
Buuuut, I might not fully understand what you need to fix. lol :\
RE: Changing Drive Location by .blade// on 12-27-2004 at 12:31 AM
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Originally posted by Titty
I dont know if I'll be much of help but I have master and slave hdd's..
When I looked on the back of the hardrive, theres usually directions
on what little plug thing will set one as master and one as slave... ?
Buuuut, I might not fully understand what you need to fix. lol :\
Well the problem is the BIOS looks for 2 HDD when it boots, but since I yanked one it's confused. I just installed a good old 10GB SLAVE HDD to make BIOS happy to fix the prob.
RE: Changing Drive Location by Titty on 12-27-2004 at 12:32 AM
Maybe the 120gb and the 80gb both have OS's on them and the
10gb doesnt ?.. That's why it's confused ? lol.
RE: Changing Drive Location by .blade// on 12-27-2004 at 12:44 AM
I'll just say I fixed it and leave it at that (That wasn't the prob. Titty )
RE: Changing Drive Location by Titty on 12-27-2004 at 12:46 AM
Aw, I really wanted to be a heroine and save Blade's day :[
But I'm glad you compromised ;p