PC How to question

[AddictChiken]

I just got a new SATA HDD and installed it. .. I put it in, low-leveled it, made a partition, gave it a letter, formatted it and then "Ghosted" my main drive onto it...

now....

I want the new drive to *be* my primary. I put it first in the boot order and the system boots from it, but everything still refers (all programs, etc.) to "C:" so most stuff still runs from the old drive.

I can't (so far) just swap the drive letters and I don't want to have to re-install everything since I have lots of work crud that is a pain to get and configure.

Is there a way to make F: into C: and vis-versa?

[Geordie-Chiken]

Change the jumpers on the back of the drives...

Make new drive the master and the old drive the slave...

[DruidChiken]

Ive never set up a SATA drive so i have limited knowledge, but the master and slave settings are only for 2 drives on the same IDE cable.

What happens if u disconnect the IDE drive so that the SATA drive is the only one with windows on it?

[AddictChiken]

I haven't disconnected the old IDE yet, but I'm going to guess that Windows will start but everything we be all FUed cause the registry entries all refer to "C"

[LoneStarChiken]

If you're running XP, can't you swap the drive letter designations for the two physical drives via "Administrative Tools" then "Computer Management", then Storage / Disk Management???

[AddictChiken]

You would think so.. but.....

When I try to change the drive letter on the SATA I get a message saying you can't change the designation of the boot drive.

When I try to change the older IDE I get a message that says "Drive contains pagefile."