Drive letters after clone

After I clone c drive onto the new larger drive, when I transfer the new drive to the hookups for the original c drive (removing the origianl c drive) will the drive rename itself to C. It's my understanding that the os has to be on c drive.

 

Are you using vista are xp? vista doesn't have any drive letter change problems, but xp is known to change drive letters when restored on a different hard drive.

If you have xp and the restored drive hangs at the logon screen, that's a sign that you have a drive letter problem.

In most cases whatever the drive letter was on the source drive will usually be present on the restored drive. All that information is present on the registry of windows and is transfered during the backup.

 

If you do the clone from the TI CD and the original drive was never booted with the other drive connected, then it should work properly. The main thing to remember is that when you boot the clone for the first time, make sure it's the only drive connected. After that you can add any other drives back as you want.

 

As K0lo, myself and several others have posted, Vista does have drive letter change problems. It's very sensitive to being the first disk and the first active partition when it's booted after a restore or clone (when duplicating). It's very easy to end up with the Vista partition being assigned the wrong drive letter if not done correctly. This problem is totally separate from the BCD/Repair problem and Vista's repair will not fix it.

 

If you're using XP, do not boot the pc with both drives installed after the cloning. Shutdown and disconnect the one you do not want to boot from and boot off the new one. XP may do a found new hardware prompt due to finding the new boot drive. If you leave both installed on the first reboot, XP will end up using the old and new. Once XP has booted off the new drive, you can reconnect the old one.

XP can be installed to any drive letter. I've had it at E: due to an usb card reader plugged in during a bare install.

Stephen

 

See Reply #11. Best to install it so it becomes C: drive if you want to make image/restore easy.

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/YaBB/YaBB.cgi?board=Full_Rad_Board;action=display;num=1145478054#11

 

Thank you all, I'll post back when I get the nerve to try the switch.