I had installed winXP on a drive, say A and with the help of Ghostpe 2001, I copied the image of the windows on another drive, say X and ,thereafter, I transferred the image to an empty drive, say B. This window on B is working alright. The drives A and B are on different HDD,s. 2. But there is an interesting phenomena. When I install a programme on window B, the prog by default are directed to drive A(The window, originally was installed there). While most of the prog can be directed to drive B by “Browse” provision, some of the prog like (a) MS Office (b) AVG Free (c) Firefox do not have the “Browse” button and ,therefore, create the folder on drive A but work on window B alright. 3. Can someone, please guide me whether (a)the window B can be tweaked to install prog on drive B by dafault.?? (b)the prog mentioned above be directed ,somehow, from drive A to drive B ?? -

Your post is confusing. It would be better if you used the actual drives on which the original resides (c:\ I presume) and to which drives or partitions you have dopied the image to. You say that it works OK on B. Where is B? I wouls presume that it is another master drive with a primary active partition. If the other two drives are slaves or partitions other than c:\ then they will not boot.

I have installed two hard drives on my pc. The drive A is the D:\ drive of one HDD and drive B is D:\ drive of another HDD. 2. The problem is not about booting. It is about installing prog as mentioned in para 3 of my post. -

When you install an OS on a drive (say D:). All the references in the Registry will point to drive D:. IF you move the drive to E:, the Registry will be incorrect because it will keep looking for files on D:. In other owrds an OS is forever tied to the drive letter that it installed on.

As far as 'programs' go, they can be installed on any drive.