copied old HD to new HD now have scrambled drive Letters

[msolheim]

I bought a new WD80gig special edition HD to replace my 30 gig Maxtor.

I used the Data Life Tools to image the drive. I installed the new drive as the master and booted up with the Data Life tools Disk. Everything copied over correctly but my drive letters are now scrambled.

Old setup: 30 gig with 2 partitions (c:2gig) & (d: 27gigs)

New drive 80 gig with 2 partitions (c:11 gig) & (d:65 gig)

What really is going on now:
c: 80 gig partition 1 (11gig)
d: 30 gig partition 1 (2gig)
e:80 gig partition 2 (65 gig)
f: 30 gig partition 2 (27 gig)

I have most of my programs loaded on what should be d:

How do I get the old drive to be drive e & f? and new drive to be c & d?

edit: Forgot to add that I'm running Win98se.


thanks
Mike

[mike breck]

Looks to me as though the 11GB and 2GB are Primary Partitions and the 65 and 27 GBs are Logical drives. As Primary partitions will always get priority when assigned letter, that is why the partitions are mixed up.

If you are using Windows XP you should be able to change any drive letters (apart from C: ) in Disk Management.

HTH

[glc]

Remove the old drive and your partitions will fall into place. If you want to wipe the old drive and repartition it for storage, do not create a primary dos partition on it, only an extended partition with logical drives.

[msolheim]

glc,
That is my plan, to use the 30 gig for storage. I have been trying to back up each of the partitions on the 30 gig with ghost just in case. But everytime I try to back up the 27 gig portion, which has about 15 gig worth of files, it gets to about 50% complete and either stalls or reboots the computer. I was splitting the back up into 640 meg files so I can store it on a cd. Are there limitiations in the number of split it will do or will back up?

So basicly I don't want to repartition the 30 gig until I have a good back up of it.

Mike

[glc]

Why don't you pull the new drive and try it with just the old drive in there?

[msolheim]

I tried that before I had the new HD. I made a ghost image of the c drive over my network to another computer with no problems but when I tried it with the D drive it always locks up or just reboots. I've been using this command line:
ghost.exe -split=640 -auto
has always work for me in the past.

I've been running for a couple of days with just the new drive and everything seems to be ok so I may just wipe the old drive and forget about the backup.