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Does The Boot Disk Have To Be C:\

  • 12-07-2007 3:48pm
    #1
    tak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭


    I made a drive image of my old hard disk and put it on a second newer hard disk.
    As I was afraid of confusion with 2 drives with a C label, I renamed the new drive as F. F was then made the master and C the backup.
    All seemed to be going well till I noticed that applications (and their shortcuts) that had been on the old drive seemed to be activated from the C drive.

    I tested whether I could boot from the F drive on its own - just by disconnecting the backup drive. No go. Got a message saying that it could not find the primary drive. Using F2 key I checked setup data - the Disk 0 was the F drive, as it should be. Escaped from setup. Seemed like it was starting okay when a Win XP logo appeared on the screen on starting but it never went beyond that.

    Must the working drive be labelled as C:\ for a successful boot ?

    Or is it that the old applications and their links to the C drive has confused the system ?


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Technically no, if you're doing a fresh install.

    However, in this case since the drive was originally C, you should rename it to C. This is because all applications that were previously installed, including Windows, will expect to be on the C drive.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What OS ?

    How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188


  • #4
    tak
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭tak


    Thanks, men.
    That saved me a big reinstall job.


  • #5
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    if you ever mess up the drive letters when ghosting drives, just boot the pc from a win98 boot disk and run fdisk \mbr

    this will re-write the master boot record, so xp will not recognise that its the old D, E , ect drive and it will label it the C drive


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