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new hd, old one is still c?

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pamf

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sorry if this has been done before (i suspect it has) but the faqs and searches didnt turn up anything .. i just got an 80gb hd, and set it for primary master.. i installed xp, partitioned 5gb for the os and left the other 75 .. the install went fine and im now on a clean xp install. except, my old hd shows up as c and d, and the new one shows up as g and h (after my burner and 52x) .. i checked boot.ini, and it only has one entry, presumably for the new one.. i checked the boot.ini's off my old c: and the new one, theyre the same..

is there any reason for this to be happening? 😛 i was planning on formatting c: but im a bit wary to do that.. i dont feel like sitting through another 45 min long install of xp ;/
 
Did you copy/clone your hard drive or reinstall fresh? Basically I am asking if there are two identical OS partitions (other than size) in your machine? I know this causes issues in older OS's, not sure about XP.

Did you just add the drive and format it in Windows or did you fdisk it?
 
its a fresh install.. i just set the old drive to slave, made a 5gb partition and installed fresh ;/

i partitioned/formatted in the xp installer
 
If your going to keep your old OS on your old hard drive (I am guessing that what is causing the problem), you should zip it or clone it into an image. Something where you can still get to the data, but not where the system can read any system files from. It may be trying to use two different sets of system files and folders as one. Windows 98 does this, not sure about XP.

When you zip or clone it, you shouldn't be in XP.
 
well normally yea, what my plan was, was to install xp, then wipe the old one (which i figured would end up as e and f, being that theyre primary slave) and then copy my old stuff off f gradually..

i guess ill just wipe 'c' and hope it still works 😛

thanks
 
If you loaded the way you say, it would not recognize a dual boot situation. The mobo will always check drive 0 0 first and if it finds an os with no dual boot info in the boot.ini, it just boots from there. Since you loaded there, thats whats happening, just like normal. Then when Windows was installed, it saw there was already a drive c and d on the system and couldn't use those drive letters so it just moved down.

XP will keep its drive assignments (unlike win98 which moves drive letters around according to position on the bus) based on serial number of the partition or something like that. You can plug and unplug drives in 2k/xp and drive letters will stay the same.

Well, anyway, I was thinking about a solution then I realized you are screwed now. You can't move that drive. If you do all your associations from the OS to your programs on the other partition will be changed. You either have to reinstall or leave it where it is. In the future, if you don't want to dual boot, always remove other drives while you load the OS then replace them after. You still have it if you need it as a backup but it won't confuse the install.

Partition Magic has a feature that is supposed to go thorugh and find all partition associations and fix them but I've never tried it. Everything else about that program works great but that sounds like an iffy operation to me. Might be worth a try before reformatting though if you are one of those that can't live with it the way it is.
 
yea, i just unplugged the second hd and reinstalled.. the new one is c-d now, but the old one is g-h .. theres no way to change drive letter assignments like win98?

nm found the faq 😉 thanks
 
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