Hi there,
I've just upgraded my system to a cd2 on a Badaxe2 and made a bit of a dog's dinner of re-installing XP due to my unfamiliarity of the Intel BIOS.
I have three hard disks in my system, two Seagate 320GB sata that I intend to put into a RAID and one 160 GB Maxtor as master on the single IDE port, with a DVD writer as slave.
Without going into too much boring detail I managed to get the IDE drive installed as C:\. One of my Seagates had been previously my boot drive C:\. Thus I had intended to do a full re-install of XP over the old one. Anyway, I failed to do this.
I now have my system up but my boot disk is labelled F:\. I've relabled my new/old C:\ to Z:\. Hoping that by freeing up C:\ I would be able to re-label Z:z to C:\ in the administrative tools/storage tab. However, this is not possible.
I've found a Windows knowledge base article which gives instructions as to how to do this using Regedit32 and Regedit. I must be dense as I cannot open or find Regedit32 so I can't run the Microsoft fix. Can anyone advise me on this?
I've thought of another possible way of changing my boot back to C:\ but I'm not too sure that it'll work so I'd welcome advice please. Do you think the following would work.
Using Acronis True Image I could clone my boot drive to the other SATA Seagate to which I give the label C:\ and simply change the boot order in BIOS so that the new C:\ becomes the boot drive. However, I'm not too sure how my system would boot having two identical copies of Windows on the system.
Thanks for youer attention.
I've just upgraded my system to a cd2 on a Badaxe2 and made a bit of a dog's dinner of re-installing XP due to my unfamiliarity of the Intel BIOS.
I have three hard disks in my system, two Seagate 320GB sata that I intend to put into a RAID and one 160 GB Maxtor as master on the single IDE port, with a DVD writer as slave.
Without going into too much boring detail I managed to get the IDE drive installed as C:\. One of my Seagates had been previously my boot drive C:\. Thus I had intended to do a full re-install of XP over the old one. Anyway, I failed to do this.
I now have my system up but my boot disk is labelled F:\. I've relabled my new/old C:\ to Z:\. Hoping that by freeing up C:\ I would be able to re-label Z:z to C:\ in the administrative tools/storage tab. However, this is not possible.
I've found a Windows knowledge base article which gives instructions as to how to do this using Regedit32 and Regedit. I must be dense as I cannot open or find Regedit32 so I can't run the Microsoft fix. Can anyone advise me on this?
I've thought of another possible way of changing my boot back to C:\ but I'm not too sure that it'll work so I'd welcome advice please. Do you think the following would work.
Using Acronis True Image I could clone my boot drive to the other SATA Seagate to which I give the label C:\ and simply change the boot order in BIOS so that the new C:\ becomes the boot drive. However, I'm not too sure how my system would boot having two identical copies of Windows on the system.
Thanks for youer attention.
