Designating new drive as (C) boot drive

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Frank

Hi!
I installed and partitioned a second hard drive (F). I want to use it as my
C (boot) drive. (D,E are CD-ROMS)
How do I do this? I am using Windows 2000. I used back-up/restore to copy
all system files and settings (everything on my current C drive) over to the
new one. Simply changing the jumpers on the drives (master, slave) does not
work. I'm not proficient in DOS commands (i.e. Recovery Console), is there
a simpler way? Thanks.
 
Frank said:
Hi!
I installed and partitioned a second hard drive (F). I want to use it as my
C (boot) drive. (D,E are CD-ROMS)
How do I do this? I am using Windows 2000. I used back-up/restore to copy
all system files and settings (everything on my current C drive) over to the
new one. Simply changing the jumpers on the drives (master, slave) does not
work. I'm not proficient in DOS commands (i.e. Recovery Console), is there
a simpler way? Thanks.
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To successfully transfer your installation to your new drive,
you would have to do this:
1. Back up your system from the old drive.
2. Restore your system to the new drive.
3. Disconnect the old drive.
4. Make the new drive the primary master disk.
5. Reboot your system.

If you leave the old disk (with its installation of Win2000)
connected then Windows is likely to change your drive
letters about. I am not aware of a reliable method to reverse
this action.
 
Frank said:
Hi!
I installed and partitioned a second hard drive (F). I want to use it as my
C (boot) drive. (D,E are CD-ROMS)
How do I do this? I am using Windows 2000. I used back-up/restore to copy
all system files and settings (everything on my current C drive) over to the
new one. Simply changing the jumpers on the drives (master, slave) does not
work. I'm not proficient in DOS commands (i.e. Recovery Console), is there
a simpler way? Thanks.
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assuming you did not merely use windows backup

all you need do is...from disk management...
set the drive active then unassign the drive letter

now remove the original drive and put the cloned drive in it's
place

if it does not boot


use your win2k cd to bootup

then from the recovery console
you can use:


fixboot
fixmbr
 
In the BIOS you could try changing which drive is the active partition.
This theoretically tell the computer which hard drive to boot from.

I do not know if Win2k will like this or not.

Another option is just to remove or disconnect the other drive and see if it
can still boot.
 
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