Making 2nd HDD C: on Thinkpad R40

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Richard Kaplan

I can set up the BIOS on my Thinkpad R40 to boot from my 2nd hard drive but
the 2nd hard drive still is assigned D:. I cannot change this from the
Administrative Services option in Windows XP.

Is there a way to boot from a 2nd HDD as C: and have the internal hard drive
appear as another letter?
 
Richard Kaplan said:
I can set up the BIOS on my Thinkpad R40 to boot from my 2nd hard drive but
the 2nd hard drive still is assigned D:. I cannot change this from the
Administrative Services option in Windows XP.

Is there a way to boot from a 2nd HDD as C: and have the internal hard drive
appear as another letter?
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If you're interested, there's a Boot Manager/Partition Manager/Imager called
BootItNG. I've used it for years, having been turned on to it by a bunch of
people in the MS newgroups. It's fairly cheap ($30) and you can try before
you buy. It's at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com.

It allows you to do stuff like "hide" partitions, and have different configs
for booting. I think it'll do what you want if I'm understanding.

Also, they have their own news server and support is very good.

I'm not associated with them, other than being a satisfied customer.

Jim
 
If you're interested, there's a Boot Manager/Partition Manager/Imager called
BootItNG. I've used it for years, having been turned on to it by a bunch
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Excellent idea... thanks. I'll report back and tell you if it works.
 
Richard Kaplan said:
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Excellent idea... thanks. I'll report back and tell you if it works.
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Richard,

You're welcome. As I mentioned, they have a news server, and if you have
any questions, post there. They (actually, I think *he*) is really
knowledgeable, and responses are normally very quick (though somewhat
short...he doesn't seem to like to type a lot :))...

Jim
 
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