Make sure the new disk is going to be the same drive letter as the
old.
Should be ok...usual advice is to go into Device Manager & delete
nearly everything
so the copy can install drivers from scratch...but this messes the
original .
mouse
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Re: Harddrive help needed ... from the wonderful person Urban Legend said ... but I can see it via Device Manager or Disk Management.... And what drive letter is assigned in disk mgmt.. ... (uk.comp.homebuilt)
Re: Hard Drive Clone Advice needed with M/B Chipset ... Make sure the new disk is going to be the same drive letter as the ... Should be ok...usual advice is to go into Device Manager & delete ... (uk.comp.homebuilt)
Re: USB mass storage device ... my flash disk has not been working, it is not a problem with the flash ... as the light flickers and it turns up in device manager,... It isn't being assigned a drive letter or is being assigned one that ... (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
Re: Moms PC getting slower and slower ... If you don't wish to follow all of the advice immediately,... How to use Disk Cleanup... using Windows XP "prettifications". ... You should at least turn on the built in firewall.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)
Re: Can I boot of an XP System disk, nested in a logical volume ... I'll boot of Partition Magic or some other kind of magic and fix it that-a-way. ... It's been a long time since I messed with partitions like this, but in the back of my head I have this fragment about boring registry hands-on editing, 'derived Disk ID's' and the 'Master Boot Sector' -- that's S as in 'Senile'. ... One reason for the drive letter change on cloned drives is to keep the parent drive hooked up the first time the clone is booted, being that the clone has the same Mount Manager database, and being that the Mount Manager *always* respects drive letter assignments, it will see the parent drive and its valid disk signature and assign the C: drive letter to the original C: drive, so there will be no C: letter available for the clone. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
