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03-24-2006, 11:13 PM
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Drive Transfer
I just bought a new SATA hard drive and I'm going to clone my current C: IDE Drive onto the SATA Drive. If I clone it, can I change the SATA Drive to C:? If so how do I go about doing that, should I remove the other drives so that the system sets the SATA Drive as C:. Or, will the computer automatically detect it?
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03-25-2006, 01:24 AM
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Clone the drive using a bootdisk or boot CD, then disconnect the IDE drives before you boot to Windows the first time.
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03-25-2006, 09:00 AM
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Ok, so when I run Norton Ghost it will clone the drive outside of Windows and then when it wants me to reboot I will just shut it down completely unplug the IDE Drives and then boot.
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03-25-2006, 09:01 AM
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Is that right?
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03-25-2006, 09:56 AM
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Clone -shut down-disconnect-reboot....I think. Not clone-reboot-disconnect.
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03-25-2006, 01:51 PM
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Or just change the hard drive boot priority in the bios setup and you won't have to disconnect anything, nor reinstall windows. Even if your IDE drive was C:, as long as Windows is then booting from the cloned SATA drive it will also use C: for the SATA drive and give another letter to the IDE. You only have to disconnect other drives when installing Windows.
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03-26-2006, 11:47 AM
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OK, I have one last question, is there a way to change the drive letter on a drive and/or change the name of the drive. I installed and cloned onto the SATA drive and everything works great, but I want my old IDE drives to be D and E but Windows turned the old windows drive into the G drive. The SATA drive is labeled as DRV3_VOL1, so I'm wondering if there is anyway to change that.
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03-26-2006, 01:05 PM
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Use Disk Managment (right click on My Computer and select Manage) to change drive letters and names. You can change all but the C Drive.
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