I want to switch my harddrives

[Dreadraven]

Hey everyone.. I need some help.

I have 2 harddrives...a 20 gb and a 80 gb that I just got a week ago.
Right now, the 20 gb is set as C:\ and the 80 gb is set as D:\
How do I change this? I want my 80 gb to be C:\ and my 20gb to be D:\
Can someone help me out please? oh and it's ok if it involves wiping my harddrive.

thanks!

 

[shootinyou]

Which OS?? Whats on the C and D drives know??
I'm assuming the 20 is a 5400rpm drive

edit: welcome to the forums BTW





The middle one is true

 

[Dreadraven]

Ummmm I am running Windows XP
And Both of them are 5,400 RPM I think

actually.. neither of them CAN be correct OR incorrect..
if the middle one was correct, then the top one is false... which would mean the middle one is incorrect
paradox

 

[shootinyou]

Do you have XP installed on both C and D drives??
(C: is the boot drive so it requires an OS.)

1. If so you should only have to reset jumpers and IDE cable.
ie 80gig to master plugged into the end of IDE cable, and 20gig as slave
plugged into middle of IDE cable.

2. If not you could copy C to D and then reset jumpers and cable as above.

3. Or if a clean install is prefered, copy important files from D: to C: and
reformat D: within Windows, reset jumpers and cable as above. Set 1st boot
device in bios to CD-Rom and boot up using XP cd, you can set up partitions
if needed on the 80gig and install XP, drivers ect.

Your 80gig is now your C: drive, and you can now copy any files from the 20gig
(D: drive) to the 80gig and reformat the 20gig drive within Windows if needed.

Just my 2 cents, there may be a better way.

 

[HardWyred]

Would probably have to do a clean install, and proceed as shootinyou suggested.
You can't copy XP to drive D and switch the jumpers, to try and make it C.
I tried this once (using Norton Ghost to clone the drive), and Windows threw a fit trying to find everything, because even after switching the jumpers, it still saw the drives with the same drive letters. (unless I screwed up somewhere... but I don't think so.)
The ability of XP (likewise 2k) to allow "on-the-fly" assignment of drive letters, probably doesn't allow that to work the same way.

 

[borgmang]

Originally posted by: shootinyou
Do you have XP installed on both C and D drives??
(C: is the boot drive so it requires an OS.)

1. If so you should only have to reset jumpers and IDE cable.
ie 80gig to master plugged into the end of IDE cable, and 20gig as slave
plugged into middle of IDE cable.

2. If not you could copy C to D and then reset jumpers and cable as above.

3. Or if a clean install is prefered, copy important files from D: to C: and
reformat D: within Windows, reset jumpers and cable as above. Set 1st boot
device in bios to CD-Rom and boot up using XP cd, you can set up partitions
if needed on the 80gig and install XP, drivers ect.

Your 80gig is now your C: drive, and you can now copy any files from the 20gig
(D: drive) to the 80gig and reformat the 20gig drive within Windows if needed.

Just my 2 cents, there may be a better way.

Go with the clean install.

 

[Dreadraven]

Ok.. thanks everyone... but uhhh question... how do I change the bios to cd-rom or whatever that was...?
>_< Sorry.. I'm kinda newbie at this whole thing.