with a recent hard disk failure , i decided to fit 2 hard drives which ive done . the second Hard drive has been fitted with power and data cables but not "quite visible" yet , if i go to properties on C drive , hardware , i can see it alongside the first hard drive .
Question how can i change the second hard drive from C to D .
The plan is to use D drive purely for data
The damaged hard drive - can i temporarily put into D and retrieve data from it or is this wishfull thinking ?
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Hello bivvyman!
<Question how can i change the second hard drive from C to D.>
Have you already installed the operating system on the new/replacement drive? And, is it a master" driver?
<The damaged hard drive - can i temporarily put into D and retrieve data from it or is this wishfull thinking?>
It's possible, it depends on what the damage is, physical or logical, and whether or not the data is in a recoverable state.
Andre...
ran diskmgmt.msc Found Disk 0 & Disk 1 ( this is on the lower half of the screen - cant find CHANGE DRIVE LETTERS etc
Should Disk 1 be Basic or Dynamic
the top console shows "C" ( disk 0 ) only
Regards
( if it helps i installed XP pro with one Hard Drive in place , then added 2nd Hard Drive - i didnt realise i needed a data cable to make it function !! ) As ive only just installed XP it could be redone if it makes life easier
Regards
The one with th blue stripe across the type is your BOOT system partition it will prob say System (healty) or something like that on this is the one you have installed XP on.
Disk 1 should be the new disk. If you cant see if in My Computer then it is not setup yet. Right click the disk and you should see an option to CREATE PARTITION. do this and use the settings it lists. Once this is complete right click it again and it should say FORMAT PARTITION> Do this using NTFS and wait until it tells you the disk is ready. It should then be accessable from My Computer.
http://www.seagate.com/sup
This should be of some help.
The top Pane will show your formatted and ready use use drives, partitions, volumes etc.
The bottom will show the physical disks you have the key there is any that say "UNALLOCATED" these are drives that have been added to your PC that have not yet been partitioned or formatted
Thanks for that , its formatting now with drive E allocated
Last question , my old hard drive , assuming its nots physically damaged and put it in place of E , would i be able to try and read the data ?
Regards and top marks for quick response
It would be a good idea if one could upload screen shots to assist
Regards
Not having any blank old partitioned drives its diffcault to make screenshots :(
Once formatted you will be able to change the drive letter by right clicking DISK1 and choosing "CHANGE DRIVE LETTERS AND MAPPINGS"
You may need to re-assign any CD drives first if there currently mapped to that letter but you wont be able to change the c: one as its the primary boot partition the only way it can be done is if you put an OS on the new hdd and boot from it which is just as much a pain in the behind.
But yes if you place yuor old hdd in there there maybe a chance you can recover something off it how much and if you will have to see once windows is booted.
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by: rhickmottPosted on 2006-06-27 at 05:50:51ID: 16991993
You will need to format and partition the second drive in order to begin using it (if you havent already)
Goto Start Run > diskmgmt.msc and you will see the drives listed. If you rligth click on a drive you will see the option "CHANGE DRIVER LETTERS AND MAPPINGS" your going ot have great problems doing this on c: if your botted off it as its the system partition.
From here you should also be able to create a NTFS partition on your new drive and once formatted it will show up in My Computer.