HDD appears twice

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I wished to install a larger hard drive and keep oild drive for data.
Initial drive had two partitions
Used paragon to copy drive and installed this as Primary drive.
I boot from this drive.
My computer shows Drive letters as C, D, (original drive) and G and H being
the new drive.

I modified the drive letters as per
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
Old C was named R, old D was named S
G was renamed C
H was renamed D.

After reboot, My computer shows local disks C D G H R S

I tried deleting G and H in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices but
they return on reboot


How Do i correct Drive Letters so only C D R S remainnames.
 
It might be like trying to change a drive letter when the hd is active in xp,
in diskmgmt.msc you cant if it has a page file.Open system properties,change
to no page file,return to msc,change letter..Maybe if you uninstalled the hd
in device mgr,reboot,see where the letters are.
 
malcDT said:
I wished to install a larger hard drive and keep oild drive for data.
Initial drive had two partitions
Used paragon to copy drive and installed this as Primary drive.
I boot from this drive.
My computer shows Drive letters as C, D, (original drive) and G and H being
the new drive.

I modified the drive letters as per
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
Old C was named R, old D was named S
G was renamed C
H was renamed D.

After reboot, My computer shows local disks C D G H R S
Click to expand...

Frankly, you might want to wipe the new drive and start over. This time,
delete all the values in the ...\MountedDevices key before the copy.
Copy, set the new partition active, shutdown. Disconnect the original,
connect the new drive as primary,. boot to XP so it will enumerate
the new drive letters. Shutdown, and reconnect the original.

There's also the option of deleting the MBR signature that NT uses
to identify drives, but I don't know if Paragon has that feature.
 
Bill, Thanks for your comments. This approach fixed the problem. As part
of the solution, I also deleted the swap file as suggested by Andrew E
Help from each of you is appreciated.
 
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