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Hard Drive Designation
Name: mwiemer Date: February 6, 2006 at 13:48:17 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: 1.0/512
Comment:
I have two hard dirves in my machine, C and D. My C drives was going bad so I temperary added a third one and copied all the files from c to e. I then replaced c with e but when I reboot I only have d and e. I can I rename my e drive to c so my programs will work.
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: February 6, 2006 at 13:53:30 Pacific
Reply:
No you cannot do that. You will need an imaging or transfer program. Your newhard drive should have come sith some software to transfer your old drive to the new one. It will then be recognized as C
Michael J
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Response Number 2
Name: ham30 Date: February 6, 2006 at 15:43:55 Pacific
Reply:
That's right, you cannot just use windows to copy the files over. You need a special program that will also copy the Master Boot Record and other stuff.
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