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Need to format... but I can forsee a problem :)

BeauJangles

BeauJangles

Lifer
Here's the scoop. Basically, I installed my OS a while ago, and now am ecountering problems and generally I feel a reformat is a good idea... the problem is that when the OS set up my drives it detected my primary partition as C:, then my CDROM as D:, then my second partition as G:.... I know this is not normal and when I format it probably will pick them up as

Primary -> C:
Secondary -> D:
CDROM -> G:

or at least that is what I would expect. Now if I back up my registry every link will be wrong when i format because my drive changed from G: to D:, correct? Is there any way I can backup the drive so that it points to D:?

Any Ideas?


Thanks for the help!
 
Did you install any applications on your second hard drive? If not, there shouldn't be any entries in the registry regarding it. Same for your CD-ROM drive.

-Russ
 
I'm thinking that you have your 1st HD and CDrom on the primary channel and your second HD on the secondary channel. If this is right then your OS is probably just doing what it's supposed to. You can either reconfigure so both HDs are on the primary IDE channel or just go ahead, setup the OS and then use disk manager to re-arrange your letters...no big deal. Good luck!
 
How drive letters get assigned by an OS depends on drives' locations and their partition configurations. Formating a partition shouldn't affect it if nothing else is changed. If you've got OS problems there's a good chance your registry is also corrupted and you'd be better off, anyway, doing a fresh install.
 
Sorry I wasn't more clear, but the partitions all lie on one HDD, which is really weird i think. I may just reformat anyway, seeing as no one seems to think there is a way to save the registry and change the pointers.
 
If you dont have any programs on your other Partition, say its only MP3's and other files like that, then you can just format C:

you will need to reinstall all your drivers for all your Hardware...
 
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