Hello all. Last night I had my first crash and it was ugly....well, I was anyway since it scared the crud out of me. I ended up re-installing Windows and figured I'd just go from there. Once I got rebooted I found that all my data was still on my hard drive, but the drive that my pc used to boot from was renamed (it was C before the crash). The drive that I installed the OS on was now named C.
I figured I'd just try and move things over and I did without problem. However, I'm having all sorts of problems with how things are working on my C drive now. I can't get Windows Update to work and many programs won't install at all. So after working on this all day I just decided to try and figure a way to make my old C drive the boot drive again. I've been looking and searching all over on how to do it, but I can't find a way to make this happen. I tried to use Partition Magic 8 (free version) to rename the drives, but it wouldn't take.
I really don't know if I will be able to boot into the old drive even if I can get it to try, but I'd still like to see if I can. I've been banging my head up against a wall with this thing all day and now I just want to go back to how I had it before. Oh yeah, I had system restore turned off, so can't use that. Any ideas on how I can get my pc to boot into another drive? Let me know what other info I can add to help solve this. Thanks!
If you can't tell already, I'm a newbie with all this.....
edit: I realized that I probably didn't need to do a fresh install afterall. I looked in BIOS and it showed my first boot priority as CD-ROM. I didn't change it to boot to that, but right before this happened my pc frooze and I had to do a hard shutdown (correct term???....pressed button until shut down). So this took me right to install when I put my Windows disk in....and since it wouldn't let me boot normally (and it was 2am) I just went with it. I really hate being a dumb-a$$ newbie!!! Still in need of some much appreciated help to get my system back to where it was before all this.
I figured I'd just try and move things over and I did without problem. However, I'm having all sorts of problems with how things are working on my C drive now. I can't get Windows Update to work and many programs won't install at all. So after working on this all day I just decided to try and figure a way to make my old C drive the boot drive again. I've been looking and searching all over on how to do it, but I can't find a way to make this happen. I tried to use Partition Magic 8 (free version) to rename the drives, but it wouldn't take.
I really don't know if I will be able to boot into the old drive even if I can get it to try, but I'd still like to see if I can. I've been banging my head up against a wall with this thing all day and now I just want to go back to how I had it before. Oh yeah, I had system restore turned off, so can't use that. Any ideas on how I can get my pc to boot into another drive? Let me know what other info I can add to help solve this. Thanks!
If you can't tell already, I'm a newbie with all this.....
edit: I realized that I probably didn't need to do a fresh install afterall. I looked in BIOS and it showed my first boot priority as CD-ROM. I didn't change it to boot to that, but right before this happened my pc frooze and I had to do a hard shutdown (correct term???....pressed button until shut down). So this took me right to install when I put my Windows disk in....and since it wouldn't let me boot normally (and it was 2am) I just went with it. I really hate being a dumb-a$$ newbie!!! Still in need of some much appreciated help to get my system back to where it was before all this.