Changing HD's, drive letters stayed the same

[Rick25]

Got a new HD a while ago and never bother to swap them around. Decided to do that tonight. Partitioned the drive the way I wanted and then used Ghost 2001 to transfer the existing partitions to the new drive. Changed the ide cabling so that the new one is now the master on the primary and the old is master on the secondary. That worked fine, problem is that the drive letters in Win2000 stayed the same. Disk0 is F,G,I and Disk1 is C,D,E. It boots fine from Disk0, but as soon as Windows logs on it starting looking for D and goes into a loop is it can't find it. I tried disconnecting Disk1 to see if I could force it to rename the drives. No go and Disk Manager won't let you rename system (F: ) or boot (G: ) partitions. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?? I was considering removing both drives from the Device Manager and forcing Win2000 to redetect them. Good theory or will I screw it up even more?

help

Rick

 

[paulip88]

If you are using Win2K, the best way to change the drive letters is to use the disk manager. You can find thisin Administrative Tools in Computer Management.

Your problems are probably a result of Win2K assigning drive letters for you, but getting confused by the drives switching locations.

 

[Rick25]

Thanks, that was the first placed I tried. Unfortunately Win2k won't let you change the letters of the boot or system partition. I can't think of a way to play musical drive letters in such a way as to end up the way I want it.

[edit]
When in doubt check the KB and then hack the registry. You have to play musical drive letters in the Local_machine\system\mounteddevices key. Once you have it set the way you want, reboot and pray. Helps to write out the steps first, that way you don't forget what was what.