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O.P. Huh?  Changing Drive Location
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?
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12-26-2004 06:33 PM
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RE: Changing Drive Location
Look at madman66's reply to Drive Letter Associations
12-26-2004 09:18 PM
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RE: Changing Drive Location
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.
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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 :-/
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12-26-2004 10:29 PM
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RE: Changing Drive Location
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?
12-26-2004 10:53 PM
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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 :P
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12-27-2004 12:24 AM
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RE: Changing Drive Location
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... ?

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Buuuut, I might not fully understand what you need to fix. lol :\
12-27-2004 12:28 AM
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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... ?

:s


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. :P
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12-27-2004 12:31 AM
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RE: Changing Drive Location
Maybe the 120gb and the 80gb both have OS's on them and the
10gb doesnt ?.. That's why it's confused ? lol.
12-27-2004 12:32 AM
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^o)

I'll just say I fixed it and leave it at that :P (That wasn't the prob. Titty :P)
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