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Need some help with drive letters.

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Mears

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I am running WinXP and earlier I tried copying my old hardrive to a new one using Ghost. My orignial drive was partitioned as follows:
Partition A: 7gb NTFS for the OS and crucial software
Partition B: 33gb FAT32 for general storage

I'm using a ATA adapter card. I had my original drive as the master of the first IDE channel on the card and my Linux drive as its slave. I then added my new drive as the master to the second IDE channel on the card. My new harddrive is 100gb and in order to create a FAT32 parition of 80gb, I had to first use my eazy install utitlities that came with it. I partitioned the drive into two FAT32 paritions and then used winXP's setup to wipe out the first FAT32 partition and changed it to NTFS. Then I booted into Ghost and used a partition-to-partition copy for each partition on the original drive. However, when I booted into WinXP afterwards my new drive was being read as having a C: partition and a G: partition. This is a huge deal, because all my shortcuts for software point to a D: partition. Is there any way I can change the G: into a D:, or does anyone know why one of them was created as G:? Does it have soemething to do with Ghosting to it while it was on the secondary IDE channel?
 
Read this first.

Since your post is somewhat confusing to say the least. Your first primary partition(bootable) is assigned C: in this order: ide 0(primary) master,ide 0 slave, ide 1(secondary) master, ide 1 slave. Then any other primary partitions are assigned drive letters D:, E:...... After that logical partitions are assigned drive letters stating with ide 0 master thru ide 1 slave.

So if i read what you have said correctly, you kept the new drive as ide 1(Secondary) master with no other bootable partitions on the other drives so it gets assigned to drive C:
Then your first drives on ide 0 must have a total of 3 partitions which are assigned as D:, E:, F:
Then the remaining partition on the new drive gets assigned as G:

Easiest solution if I am correct in understanding your situation is to move the new drive to be the primary (ide 0) master. Then drive letters should be assigned as C:, D:
with remaining drive's partitions getting assigned as E:,F:,G:
 
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