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05-22-2006, 11:46 AM
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| Your Twisted Leader  Join Date: Jul 2003
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   |  Goofed on my XP install
Hey, need some help here. I got a new harddrive for my PC and I installed Windows XP, and I also have another harddrive for my additional file storage. Anyway, I removed my original C drive and inserted my NEW C drive with using the same exact cable connection and everything. Old C drive had its pins set at "cable select" so I put the new drive at "cable select" and didn't bother to check how the cable was routed since it currently works on the PC with my master drive being my C drive. Anyway, I went through the entire process, got everything up and running, and I just noticed my default C drive is actually labeled G. Is there anyway to fix this without a total new install? Is there any harm in this besides making sure I always choose the G drive when installing new things? Please help!
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05-22-2006, 11:51 AM
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| I'm Surrounded by Retards  Join Date: Jul 2004
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| Re: Goofed on my XP install
It shouldn't cause any problems as long as you can always pick the G drive as the drive to install to, some programms don't give you a choice. If you right click on "My computer" and pick manage than pick disk management you can change the drive letters in there, but depending on your computer it might not let you change your boot drive
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05-22-2006, 03:14 PM
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| Re: Goofed on my XP install
Ya, it wouldn't let me change my boot drive and everything I kept reading said it was a really bad idea to attempt changing the boot letter AFTER a fresh install. SO I dumped it and reinstalled again. Clean install but wasted most of my day. Oh well. Thanks though Max!
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06-17-2006, 08:42 AM
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| Elder Monkey  Join Date: Feb 2005
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| Re: Goofed on my XP install
Just wondering why you left it as CS instead of M or S?
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06-17-2006, 02:06 PM
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| Elder Monkey Join Date: Feb 2005
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 I'd set the new drive as the Master, the existing drive as the slave, and put them on the same cable. Then put the optical drives on the Second cable. Hopefully the transfer rate of the Hard drives is the same ATA100 or 133, that way they would transfer data at the same rate. The optical drive is always slower than a harddrive.
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06-24-2006, 08:39 AM
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| Your Twisted Leader Join Date: Jul 2003
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| Re: Goofed on my XP install
My bad. I didn't know it mattered figuring that the cable select was already placed properly. I've swapped maybe a total of 4 harddrives in my life so I felt matching what I had working was a good idea. Guess not.
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06-24-2006, 12:49 PM
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| Monkey Baby  Join Date: May 2004
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Even on my *nix PC's, CS is always problematic. IMHO you're always better off deciding which one is master and which one is slave instead of letting the PC do it. An important decision such as "who gets to be the master and who gets to be the slave?" is not one that is best left to the machine.  |
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