where is drive C???

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BillDiec

Hi
I install and new sata hard drive and used mfg. software to copy files
from my old ide drive to the sata drive now I have no "c:" dive.
have a. D E cdrom F dvd g,h,i,j, are my memory card reader K is my old C
drive.

Why no C drive??
Thank you
 
BillDiec said:
Hi
I install and new sata hard drive and used mfg. software to copy files
from my old ide drive to the sata drive now I have no "c:" dive.
have a. D E cdrom F dvd g,h,i,j, are my memory card reader K is my old C
drive.

Why no C drive??
Thank you
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Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management.
Find the drive here, right click Change Drive Letter and Paths, the Make
Partition Active. The boot disk will have a status of Healthy (System).

Q
 
Quaoar said:
Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management.
Find the drive here, right click Change Drive Letter and Paths, the
Make Partition Active. The boot disk will have a status of Healthy
(System).
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You can't change the letter assigned to the operating system.

Bill, what you have to do when you clone a drive to replace C: drive is,
after the operation is complete and Windows has re-booted, go into Disk
management as described above and remove the drive letter for the partition
that's going to be the new C: (You can still do this if you have the old
drive intact with data, change than back again for a few minutes).

If you do that, on booting with the new drive Windows will automatically
call if C:, if, however, it's already been in a Windows system and assigned
a letter, it will keep that letter. (And C: will become available and
assigned to whatever drive is next added).

I've struck this myself as I have half-a-dozen PCs and, when I get a new
drive for one, invariably the removed drive goes down the food chain (so to
speak) so a lot of cloning is required. You always have to remove the drive
letter from the new bootable partition before removing the old one.

Good luck, I hope you haven't wiped your old drive yet or you'll have to
live with the new arrangement unless you re-install from scratch.
 
Thank u for the reply tried but did not work.
Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management.
Find the drive here, right click Change Drive Letter and Paths, the Make
Partition Active. The boot disk will have a status of Healthy (System).

Q
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BillDiec said:
Thank u for the reply tried but did not work.
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Did you try my suggestion? I went to a bit of trouble to write it out for
you, a reply would be nice.
 
~misfit~ said:
Did you try my suggestion? I went to a bit of trouble to write it out for
you, a reply would be nice.
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He probably didn't reply because your advice was wrong.
If the OS being cloned calls its own partition "C:", the clone
will also call itself "C:", without any fiddling, when it runs.
Why in the world should it not if it's a true clone?

As for cloning procedures, the original HD should be
disconnected before the newly made clone is booted for
the 1st time so that the clone does not see the "parent"
OS when it boots up for the 1st time. (The original OS
can be booted as often as you want with the fresh un-booted
clone visible to it, but the *clone* cannot be booted for the
1st time with the "parent" OS visible to the clone.) After
that initial boot, the clone and the original OS can each
be run with the other visible, and the running OS will call
its own partition "C:" and the other OS's partition something
else, perhaps "D:".

*TimDaniels*
 
Timothy said:
He probably didn't reply because your advice was wrong.
If the OS being cloned calls its own partition "C:", the clone
will also call itself "C:", without any fiddling, when it runs.
Why in the world should it not if it's a true clone?

As for cloning procedures, the original HD should be
disconnected before the newly made clone is booted for
the 1st time so that the clone does not see the "parent"
OS when it boots up for the 1st time. (The original OS
can be booted as often as you want with the fresh un-booted
clone visible to it, but the *clone* cannot be booted for the
1st time with the "parent" OS visible to the clone.) After
that initial boot, the clone and the original OS can each
be run with the other visible, and the running OS will call
its own partition "C:" and the other OS's partition something
else, perhaps "D:".

*TimDaniels*
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I cloned an XP drive this week, and yes it does get
the "c" label. However if you start XP with both drives
in, you lose the c label.I learned the hard way not
to do that . Did the clone again, removed the original,
put the clone in,booted XP oke, it just insisted on
rebooting because of new hardware.
Ghost 2003 disk->disk clone to a bigger,formatted
drive,no problems,and a satisfied neighbour!!
 
Sjouke said:
I cloned an XP drive this week, and yes it does get
the "c" label. However if you start XP with both drives
in, you lose the c label.I learned the hard way not
to do that . Did the clone again, removed the original,
put the clone in,booted XP oke, it just insisted on
rebooting because of new hardware.
Ghost 2003 disk->disk clone to a bigger,formatted
drive,no problems,and a satisfied neighbour!!
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Sure, as long as you don't re-boot with the cloned C: in situ. However, the
version of Ghost I own (2003) automatically re-boots into Windows after the
cloning process, then assigns a different drive letter to the cloned disk.

So, yeah, if you are prepared to sit there throughout the process and pull
the plug on the system before it has time to re-boot back into Windows you
can keep the C: designation on the clone. Otherwise, you have to remove the
newly-assigned drive letter as I said earlier. It saves re-doing the clone
again.
 
Timothy said:
He probably didn't reply because your advice was wrong.
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No it wasn't, it was perfectly correct for the situation the OP was in.
Otherwise why would he be asking why the boot drive wasn't C:?

Therefore my advice was valid Tim.
If the OS being cloned calls its own partition "C:", the clone
will also call itself "C:", without any fiddling, when it runs.
Why in the world should it not if it's a true clone?

As for cloning procedures, the original HD should be
disconnected before the newly made clone is booted for
the 1st time so that the clone does not see the "parent"
OS when it boots up for the 1st time. (The original OS
can be booted as often as you want with the fresh un-booted
clone visible to it, but the *clone* cannot be booted for the
1st time with the "parent" OS visible to the clone.) After
that initial boot, the clone and the original OS can each
be run with the other visible, and the running OS will call
its own partition "C:" and the other OS's partition something
else, perhaps "D:".
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Yeah, except the OP *didn't* do it that way and I was explaining how he
could change it back to C: without having to re-clone, as long as he still
had the original drive and it's contents.

Your post would be entirely accurate in a "How to" thread. This isn't a "How
to" thread, it's a "How to fix a **** up" thread.

Therefore your advice, in this context, is wrong, or at least redundant.
 
~misfit~ said:
Sure, as long as you don't re-boot with the cloned C: in situ.
However, the version of Ghost I own (2003) automatically
re-boots into Windows after the cloning process, then
assigns a different drive letter to the cloned disk.

So, yeah, if you are prepared to sit there throughout the
process and pull the plug on the system before it has time
to re-boot back into Windows you can keep the C: designation
on the clone. Otherwise, you have to remove the newly-assigned
drive letter as I said earlier. It saves re-doing the clone again.
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I had a problem with that automatic re-boot, too.
Now I use Casper XP for cloning, and it doesn't
re-boot because it doesn't need to - it just stays
in Windows. When Casper XP is done, Windows
is still running, and you can access the clone and
diddle with it all you want - such as change its
boot.ini file and put a file named appropriately on
its Desktop so that it can be readily identified by
the User (i.e. you) when it boots. Then, at your leisure,
you can shut down any time, disconnect the primary
hard drive (I do this with DPST switches on the HD's
power cable) and then boot up the clone for it's 1st
outing.

You can download a 30-day trial copy of Casper XP
from www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp/ .

*TimDaniels*
 
~misfit~ said:
Your post would be entirely accurate in a "How to" thread.
This isn't a "How to" thread, it's a "How to fix a **** up" thread.

Therefore your advice, in this context, is wrong, or at least
redundant.
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I thought you me "plonked" me. :-) It's nice to see
you really didn't. You wouldn't know what you're missing.

Anyway, no harm in telling the OP how to avoid a
problem in his cloning efforts.

*TimDaniels*
 
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