Can i make another partition the C: instead?

OzZie

OzZie

OzZie

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Bit of a dilemma i've got.

Yesturday i had my XP on my 40GB IDE HDD, and all of my documents on my 500GB SATA which had only one partition. My intension was to make a 65GB partition on the 500GB hard drive, so that i could remove my IDE and still have around 420GB for documents on another partition.

So i used disk director suite 10 to make another partition from the free space on my SATA. Formatted it as normal and it became the D:. Then the larger 460GB partition simply shrunk to 420GB and remained as the E:. I assumed that when i removed the 40GB IDE from my computer, that the 65GB would go become the C:, and the 420GB partition would become the D:. However, upon taking out the 40GB and going to install Windows XP, the setup has made them back to front, and so i've had to install on the D: partition.

Is there anyway to get these to reverse without formatting? I've got DD suite installed but i'm lost on what to do.

Many thanks. :)
 
i'd remove the small hdd

have only the 500gb drive plugged in, chuck in xp cd (remove all partitions), then create a 65gb partition -that's 66560mb in the xp setup.

then once in windows create the 2nd partition and set my documents etc to use that (right click my documents, properties, move/location)



there's no problem free way of changing them without formatting
 
Cheers bledd.

I forgot to mention that i did remove the 40GB IDE. I created the partitions on the 500GB whilst it was still plugged in as i copied all of my documents to the 40GB as a backup whilst i made the smaller 65GB one, then copied them back to the shrunk 420GB partition which would remain as my documents partition. It was the fastest way of backing up :o

I think by doing this whilst it Windows, it must have messed up the drive lettering though on the 500GB.

I will copy my documents onto my laptop, then remove all of the partitions in the XP setup for the SATA drive. Then i will create a 65GB (65,xxx) partition.

The only thing that confused me about what you said is that you said create the 420GB partiton once in Windows. Can i not just do this in the XP setup window like with the 65GB partition?

Thanks. :)
 
yeah you could it'd probably become C: 65gb, D: 400gb, e: dvd

quick format does the job fine (the non quick just runs a drive check first)
 
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