I'm tearing my hair after somehow scrambling my drive letters on this
XP PC, so if there's anyone around that can help I'd much appreciate
it please. I have a few posts out in the Windows NGs too.

In brief, I used Drive Image 2002 to copy my C system partition to an
alternative hard disk. This is what the setup now looks like:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/Mess1.gif

And this is what it should look like (as it did before):
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XPDiskMgmt.gif

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:52:48 +0100, Terry Pinnell
wroth:

I'm tearing my hair after somehow scrambling my drive letters on this
XP PC, so if there's anyone around that can help I'd much appreciate
it please. I have a few posts out in the Windows NGs too.

In brief, I used Drive Image 2002 to copy my C system partition to an
alternative hard disk. This is what the setup now looks like:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/Mess1.gif

And this is what it should look like (as it did before):
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XPDiskMgmt.gif

So what's the problem? After all, a rose by any other drive letter
designation will smell as sweet.

Jim

"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
...
I'm tearing my hair after somehow scrambling my drive letters on this
XP PC, so if there's anyone around that can help I'd much appreciate
it please. I have a few posts out in the Windows NGs too.

In brief, I used Drive Image 2002 to copy my C system partition to an
alternative hard disk. This is what the setup now looks like:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/Mess1.gif

And this is what it should look like (as it did before):
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XPDiskMgmt.gif

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK


From that panel you can assign fixed disk letters. Although all I saw
different was you renamed E: to System2 rather than system and the usage was
different.

Charles

"Charles W. Johson Jr." past to present
wrote:

From that panel you can assign fixed disk letters. Although all I saw
different was you renamed E: to System2 rather than system and the usage was
different.

Charles, Jim: Thanks both. I may be making heavy weather of it, but
it's been a long day! The devil is in the details, so excuse this
rather long explanation.

Since posting, I've made some progress with the default boot issue.
Pretty deeply buried, I found XP System PropertiesAdvancedStartup &
RecoverySettingsSystem Startup has a box for 'Default Operating
System'. So I can change that easily.

Trouble is, I can't get what's left of my brain around just *which*
one to choose. I've currently changed it to
"Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (#2)" /fastdetect /NoExecute
but they look identical once I'm into XP. Of course, if I keep
swapping, I'm going to get into a mess. (Already, I'm not sure which
'system' I was in when I sent my last post here from my newsreader,
Agent. So I expect threads will start to look a bit confusing in a few
hours unless I stay putg.)

Basically, what I want is what I had: to boot up to a 'system'
partition called C, on my original (oldest) hard disk. So this would
also be the 'boot partition', yes?

This is how it looks right now, after changing the boot partition in
XP Properties:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/Mess2.gif

If I left it like this, then I'd be working from system C. That's
good, because C is the familiar label. But I'd be accessing most of my
data and many programs on Disk 2, which makes me uncomfortable. I want
my activity to be confined mainly to one hard disk, my original MAXTOR
60 GB disk 1, and only access identical MAXTOR 60 GB disk 2 for backup
of data nightly. Plus hopefully rare emergencies when I need to boot
into the alternative (increasingly older) XP system.

But if I arrange to boot from E, then the goods and bads get reversed,
yes? So it seems to me I 'just' want to relabel C as E, and E as C -
but without screwing up the registry and hundreds of shortcuts.

I'm beginning to consider using Drive Image again, this time to copy E
to C. Sort of reverse whatever happened before. But I don't think I'm
brave enough ;-(

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Well, I'm darned! Somehow XP has automagically returned the partition
names to their correct original labels:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/LookingGood.gif

It's also for some reason removed that 'Boot' annotation.

All I did was what I'd done a couple of times before, change the
default boot drop down box I described.

Anyway, not worried how it happened, just happy to have normality
back.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

On Sunday 10 October 2004 11:01 am, Terry Pinnell did deign to grace us with
the following:

Well, I'm darned! Somehow XP has automagically returned the partition
names to their correct original labels:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/LookingGood.gif

It's also for some reason removed that 'Boot' annotation.

All I did was what I'd done a couple of times before, change the
default boot drop down box I described.

Anyway, not worried how it happened, just happy to have normality
back.

You call Windoze XPee "normal?"

;-)

James Meyer wrote:

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:52:48 +0100, Terry Pinnell
wroth:

I'm tearing my hair after somehow scrambling my drive letters on this
XP PC, so if there's anyone around that can help I'd much appreciate
it please. I have a few posts out in the Windows NGs too.

In brief, I used Drive Image 2002 to copy my C system partition to an
alternative hard disk. This is what the setup now looks like:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/Mess1.gif

And this is what it should look like (as it did before):
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XPDiskMgmt.gif

So what's the problem? After all, a rose by any other drive letter
designation will smell as sweet.

Hm, if I had to associate Windows with a smell, a rose would definitely not
be on my list ... nor would the word "sweet", for that matter ...

Richard Rasker

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http://www.linetec.nl/