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currently have one IDE hard drive on my main IDE controller (C drive), a
large USB connected drive and two DVD burners. If I install a Sata drive,
will it become the drive for my operating system (assuming I copy stuff
over) or what drive letter will it take.
thanks
b
 
You Know Who ~ said:
currently have one IDE hard drive on my main IDE controller (C drive), a
large USB connected drive and two DVD burners. If I install a Sata drive,
will it become the drive for my operating system (assuming I copy stuff
over) or what drive letter will it take.
thanks
b
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just about any drive can 'become' your boot drive and drive letters can be
controlled from drive manager in admin tools
 
You Know Who ~ said:
currently have one IDE hard drive on my main IDE controller (C drive), a large USB connected drive
and two DVD burners. If I install a Sata drive, will it become the drive for my operating system
(assuming I copy stuff over)
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Depends on how you choose to install it.

It does generally make sense to make the new drive the boot drive,
because its generally a faster better performing drive than the old one.

You can certainly have it as a data drive instead if you prefer that.
or what drive letter will it take.
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If you copy the OS to the new drive and boot off it, it will still be C

If you dont copy the OS to it, it will normally get a letter
after the USB connected drive and the burners, but you can
change the letter of the non boot drives quite easily in XP.

Not so easy in Win9x and ME.
 
Thanks
b

Rod Speed said:
Depends on how you choose to install it.

It does generally make sense to make the new drive the boot drive,
because its generally a faster better performing drive than the old one.

You can certainly have it as a data drive instead if you prefer that.


If you copy the OS to the new drive and boot off it, it will still be C

If you dont copy the OS to it, it will normally get a letter
after the USB connected drive and the burners, but you can
change the letter of the non boot drives quite easily in XP.

Not so easy in Win9x and ME.
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I installed a SATA drive as a replacement for the IDE drive.

When I installed XP it came up as "F:" as the sole drive in the system.

Steve
 
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:06:11 -0000, "Steve W" <steve> wrote:

| I installed a SATA drive as a replacement for the IDE drive.
|
| When I installed XP it came up as "F:" as the sole drive in the system.

Did you set the BIOS for SATA and IDE drives?

Larc



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Steve said:
I installed a SATA drive as a replacement for the IDE drive.

When I installed XP it came up as "F:" as the sole drive in the system.

Steve
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The sata must be the *only* drive connected when you install if you want
it to be C: . Personally I could care less what the drive letters are
but if that is a concern to you then now you know how to do it.

PS: Any software worth running won't care what drive letter XP is
installed to either.

John
 
except that the registry of windows is tied to the drive letter it was
installed on......

b
 
You said:
except that the registry of windows is tied to the drive letter it was
installed on......

b
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Thank you for the confirmation of my post. Of course it goes without
saying that if you want it to be C: you have a much better shot if its
installed to the *first partition* on the *only* drive ... if thats what
you are talking about.

John
 
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