Re: Windows XP in Drive L:, Etc. Please Help!

maria, <maria>, the self-opinionated, slow-witted fairy, and sheep and
cattle driver, yielded:

> Please be kind enough to help me with the following.
> Somehow, I lost Partitions C: and D: on my machine.
> I could not repair the Windows XP in Partition C:.
> So, I setup the Windows XP again, but now it is in ... Drive L:!
> Fortunately, I had backed up everything two days ago
> into Acronis Images in an external drive.
> Here are my questions:
>
> In the new setup, the drive C: is still there! The Windows XP
> is in Drive L:. I want to restore my backup image of the Drive
> C: back into the current drive C:. What would happen if I did that?
> Or, in other words, what is the best way to restore my old drive
> C: into the new (just formatted) drive C: and get rid of the
> Windows XP in drive L:?
> I would really appreciate your kind help.
> Thank you!
>
> maria

Boot into your current windows installation and tell acronis to restore the
image of C: back to where it came from.
You may have to reboot so you may prefer to simply use the acronis boot CD
you made when you installed acronis true image.
As long as the partition was and still is the first one on the drive then
you shouldn't have any problems.
Assuming you have a proper windows XP cd you may wish to boot as far as the
point where you can partition the hard drive, you can then delete and create
the partitions as you see fit, you have a full backup, right?

Just make sure the target C: drive is large enough for the data in the image
of your original C: drive to fit on.

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