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Software to change harddrive letters?

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Agrooreo

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Ok, so I used Norton Ghost v12 to clone my 40 gb hdd onto a new 120 gb drive, so that I can take the 40 out and use it for something else. Only problem is that now with only the 120 gb drive installed windows freezes at the welcome screen. I did some research and somehow the 120 gb hdd got labeledd as F: drive during the cloning process and now I need to change it back to C:. Anyone have any ideas of what software will do this from a boot cd, preferably shareware, and that is easy to use?
 
You do not need additional software. The best way to do this is to do a repair re-installation with your WinXP CD (assuming it is a XP installation). It will require you to re-activate window but it's a fool proof that you have a good working window installation. If you do not want to do the re-installation ( which by the way will leave your programs and settings the same as before after the re-installation), you can try plugging in the old hdd and slave the new hdd and then change the hdd letter under Disk Management in the Admin Tools under Control Panel. I have doubts changing the drive letter will fix the problem but you can try.
 
Another way is to make an Image of the existing C drive and then
restore the Image to the new drive .. when you then put your new drive
in the computer in place of it's current C drive it should be fine.
And you probably would not have to reactivate. Only downside is you
need a place to store the image files.
 
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