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Posted by Pielut on April 11, 2008, 12:18 pm
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I've done it before - will do it again - and the age-old problem cannot be
rectified by this old guy.... I want to replace my "C" (boot) drive with a
larger/faster drive. First, I back up my stuff. I Install the new larger
drive. I use every type of "copy" software known to mankind (this man
anyway). I follow the directions - be it from MS, Seagate, Maxtor, 3rd party
vendor, etc....
What do I wind up with? A "D" Drive that is bigger, faster - but hosed up,
because all of the programs are looking for "C", of course!
Reading the News Groups, all I see is, "You can't change the letter for the
"C" drive". OK then - what does everybody else do, short of having to
reinstall XP on the new drive, than reinstall all of the programs they own???
Thanks in advance from this grouchy old SOB.
Bill
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Posted by David B. on April 11, 2008, 12:44 pm
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Your question is off topic for this group, which is for discussion of and
issues with Windows Media Center, I would suggest reposting the the general
group of what ever version of Windows your using.
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> I've done it before - will do it again - and the age-old problem cannot be
> rectified by this old guy.... I want to replace my "C" (boot) drive with
> a
> larger/faster drive. First, I back up my stuff. I Install the new
> larger
> drive. I use every type of "copy" software known to mankind (this man
> anyway). I follow the directions - be it from MS, Seagate, Maxtor, 3rd
> party
> vendor, etc....
>
> What do I wind up with? A "D" Drive that is bigger, faster - but hosed
> up,
> because all of the programs are looking for "C", of course!
>
> Reading the News Groups, all I see is, "You can't change the letter for
> the
> "C" drive". OK then - what does everybody else do, short of having to
> reinstall XP on the new drive, than reinstall all of the programs they
> own???
>
> Thanks in advance from this grouchy old SOB.
>
> Bill
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Posted by Jaime on April 11, 2008, 1:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options As mentioned, this is not really the topic of a Media Center forum, but in
short, the C: drive is generally the System drive it has special (usually)
hidden files for booting the PC. These files can't be just randomly copied
to another drive, they must be setup on the drive in a specific manner.
Short of reinstalling Windows (which actually isn't a bad idea), you're
other option is to use some type of backup software that understands how to
backup, burn to disc, and recreate the system drive on a new disc.
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James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
> I've done it before - will do it again - and the age-old problem cannot be
> rectified by this old guy.... I want to replace my "C" (boot) drive with
> a
> larger/faster drive. First, I back up my stuff. I Install the new
> larger
> drive. I use every type of "copy" software known to mankind (this man
> anyway). I follow the directions - be it from MS, Seagate, Maxtor, 3rd
> party
> vendor, etc....
>
> What do I wind up with? A "D" Drive that is bigger, faster - but hosed
> up,
> because all of the programs are looking for "C", of course!
>
> Reading the News Groups, all I see is, "You can't change the letter for
> the
> "C" drive". OK then - what does everybody else do, short of having to
> reinstall XP on the new drive, than reinstall all of the programs they
> own???
>
> Thanks in advance from this grouchy old SOB.
>
> Bill
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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on April 11, 2008, 6:16 pm
Please log in for more thread options To expand Jaime's post a tad: look for "cloning" software, or perhaps
for a setting within your existing backup software to "clone" your
original drive to the new one. The process may also be called
"duplicate".
When the job is done, replace the old drive with the new one on the
cable already used.
*Don't* erase the old drive until everything is definitely working (in
fact, I never erase the original drive).
On 4/11/2008, Jaime posted this:
> As mentioned, this is not really the topic of a Media Center forum, but in
> short, the C: drive is generally the System drive it has special (usually)
> hidden files for booting the PC. These files can't be just randomly copied to
> another drive, they must be setup on the drive in a specific manner.
>
> Short of reinstalling Windows (which actually isn't a bad idea), you're other
> option is to use some type of backup software that understands how to backup,
> burn to disc, and recreate the system drive on a new disc.
> --
> James
> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
>
>> I've done it before - will do it again - and the age-old problem cannot be
>> rectified by this old guy.... I want to replace my "C" (boot) drive with a
>> larger/faster drive. First, I back up my stuff. I Install the new larger
>> drive. I use every type of "copy" software known to mankind (this man
>> anyway). I follow the directions - be it from MS, Seagate, Maxtor, 3rd
>> party
>> vendor, etc....
>>
>> What do I wind up with? A "D" Drive that is bigger, faster - but hosed up,
>> because all of the programs are looking for "C", of course!
>>
>> Reading the News Groups, all I see is, "You can't change the letter for the
>> "C" drive". OK then - what does everybody else do, short of having to
>> reinstall XP on the new drive, than reinstall all of the programs they
>> own???
>>
>> Thanks in advance from this grouchy old SOB.
>>
>> Bill
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Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
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Posted by John McGaw on April 11, 2008, 6:25 pm
Please log in for more thread options Pielut wrote:
> I've done it before - will do it again - and the age-old problem cannot be
> rectified by this old guy.... I want to replace my "C" (boot) drive with a
> larger/faster drive. First, I back up my stuff. I Install the new larger
> drive. I use every type of "copy" software known to mankind (this man
> anyway). I follow the directions - be it from MS, Seagate, Maxtor, 3rd party
> vendor, etc....
>
> What do I wind up with? A "D" Drive that is bigger, faster - but hosed up,
> because all of the programs are looking for "C", of course!
>
> Reading the News Groups, all I see is, "You can't change the letter for the
> "C" drive". OK then - what does everybody else do, short of having to
> reinstall XP on the new drive, than reinstall all of the programs they own???
>
> Thanks in advance from this grouchy old SOB.
>
> Bill
You need cloning software, not any sort of file copying software. Acronis
True Image is one example. If you are installing a Seagate drive you can
download their custom version of that program and use it to clone every bit
and byte from the old drive to the new, turn the system off, remove the
old drive, boot from the new drive and you are in business. It really does
work, it is easy, and I've done it many times using IDE, SATA, and SCSI
drives, and I'm intolerably old and grouchy myself (but not normally over
computer problems).
John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com
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