I have upgraded my primary hard disk. I decided not to import the old one. I
have a hard disk connected to the slave channel which has windows 98
installed on it. When I installed windows xp today on the new drive, it came
up as F: (last in the chain), and the drive with 98 was drive c:
I have removed the 2nd drive and used my former hd as a slave. But now this
has claimed drive c: and my new one is still f:

I have went to my computer and chose manage, I have allocated all drives new
letters except it won't let me change the c: drive although this is only a
slave drive.

Can anyone help me out here.

Thanks
John

C is determined to be your boot drive.You can't change that.

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fitzybhoy wrote:
So, assuming that the ide-cables are not CableSelect (modification evident
on cable) ,then;

Did you 'jumper' the new drive to be a 'Master' and connected it to the
'Primary' channel.

Did you 'jumper' the old drive as (a 'Slave' and connected to the 'Primary
channel),
or you 'jumpered' it as (a 'Master' and connected it to the 'Secondary'
channel).

Did you then go into the BIOS and have it redetect the new-configuration.
Also in BIOS check the boot-order.

hi

you can change the drivletter in regestry after removing the old hd.

Log on as an Administrator.

Start Regedt32.exe.

Go to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

Click MountedDevices.

On the Security menu, click Permissions.

Check to make sure Administrators have full control. Change this back when
you are finished with these steps.

Quit Regedt32.exe, and then start Regedit.exe.

Go to the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for
"\DosDevices\C:".

Right-click \DosDevices\C:, and then click Rename.

NOTE: You must use Regedit instead of Regedt32 to rename this registry key.

Rename it to an unused drive letter "\DosDevices\Z:". (This will free up
drive letter C: to be used later.)

Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for "\DosDevices\D:".

Right-click \DosDevices\D:, and then click Rename.

Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter "\DosDevices\C:".

Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, click Rename, and then name it back to
"\DosDevices\D:".

Quit Regedit, and then start Regedt32.

Change the permissions back to the previous setting for Administrators (this
should probably be Read Only).

Restart the computer.

(ms Q223188)

coco

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