Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:01:03 +1000 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
C drive tends to get affected when you do something like this:
1: Install new hard drive in same computer as old hard drive 2: Boot off old hard drive into Windows (so Windows sees the new hard drive) 3: Reboot and ghost old hard drive to new hard drive 4: Remove old hard drive, boot off new hard drive
The problem is the Windows registry now has a mapping between the new hard drive's unique ID number and its drive letter. In extreme cases, this can mean Windows can't find its swap file and will refuse to let you log in properly. The worst thing is, even if you manage to boot back off the old hard drive, Windows won't let you assign the existing C drive to anything else (so you can reassign the new hard drive to C) because it's the drive Windows is sitting on.
This has happened to me twice already ... the only way to fix this is to go into the registry and edit HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices , swapping the DOSDevices letters of C drive and the drive you want to become C, before ghosting.
*sigh* once again, this is one of those things where I can understand why Microsoft did it this way but I can't understand why Microsoft made it so hard to recover from problems with respect to this ...
- Raymond
At 12:06 AM 29/03/2005 -0800, you wrote:
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:05:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Please Help Me With New Hard Drive Install
--- Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you *SURE* your C drive is actually C drive? (I've never had this > happen when ghosting but when doing other things, I've had drive IDs > stuff up and end up with an E and F drive but no C and D drive and weird
> things happen).
I've seen that a lot myself after hooking up a few different hard drives and memory card readers to my desktop running XP for various reasons. Haven't seen C: affected... tho' I'd guess it'd be possible. 'Disk Management' makes it pretty easy to change any of the drive letter designations that have changed.
Matt
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