How to change the Drive Letter on a cloned drive
I have a drive that I have cloned from my original c: Drive. I have copied both the MBR and have made the new drive active. However the drive that I cloned to has the drive letter of F. I have the Norton boot disk but I am not able to change the drive letter from F to C. In the boot disk I have access to the DOS promt. Can I change the drive letter from DOS or is there something else I need to do so that I can make this drive my active drive?
Thanks,
Gabicus
Thanks,
Gabicus
PUNKY
Normally, you should not assign drive letter during ghost. If you do clone again, which is easier.
1. Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and Maintenance appears in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear.
3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
5. Click Add.
6. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, and then either accept the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use.
7. Click OK.
2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and Maintenance appears in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear.
3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
5. Click Add.
6. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, and then either accept the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use.
7. Click OK.
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You should be able to boot off the drive when jumpered right regardless the drive letter
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Punky,
I can try and reclone the drive but when I did this the frist time I could not get norton to see the drive until I gave it a drive letter. Is there a setting I need to set so that I can have the drive seen without a dirve letter.
Gabicus
I can try and reclone the drive but when I did this the frist time I could not get norton to see the drive until I gave it a drive letter. Is there a setting I need to set so that I can have the drive seen without a dirve letter.
Gabicus
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OK I removed the drive letter. I tired to boot and it booted up but after I tried to log in in stayed on a blue screen(not the blue screen of death). I will go back and check the jumper and make sure I have all the drive off but the new drive.
The first time I tried this when I had the drive letter, after the log in it said that the path name did not exsist.
I have Ghost V14 I did
Copy disk to disk
copy MBR
Set Active
Now I no longer have a drive letter
I am using SATA
The first time I tried this when I had the drive letter, after the log in it said that the path name did not exsist.
I have Ghost V14 I did
Copy disk to disk
copy MBR
Set Active
Now I no longer have a drive letter
I am using SATA
hmm sata needs drivers when installing xp the set up asks if you want to install SCSI or RAID drivers press F6.
Maybe one idea as a work around run a repair re-install of xp and install the sata drivers in this method.
Maybe one idea as a work around run a repair re-install of xp and install the sata drivers in this method.
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The os is Vista Premium. I am try to get it to log in and I am right now still with the blue screen. The hard drive light is on so it looks like it is doing something.
do you get safemode access/
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Yes I do when I have both the original hard drive and the new one both on at the same time.
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but that was with the boot disk and it did not help. Is there a way I can get it to go to safemode in the startup
tap F8 continously at the post only
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Merete,
Thanks for helping. The issue was when I set up the Disk copy and used a Drive letter it still had the info somewhere in it. I had to unallocated the drive and start over this time when I booted up it worked.
I am going to split the points between you and Punky. Punky did have the correct info but you stuck it out with me and gave great advice.
Best,
Gabicus
Thanks for helping. The issue was when I set up the Disk copy and used a Drive letter it still had the info somewhere in it. I had to unallocated the drive and start over this time when I booted up it worked.
I am going to split the points between you and Punky. Punky did have the correct info but you stuck it out with me and gave great advice.
Best,
Gabicus
Oh thank you very much glad I could help out and happy to know you have boot again.
All the best
Merete
All the best
Merete