Using Norton Ghost to clone hard drive

[towjoe42]

It would appear that this original problem is fixed.
I gave up and took it to a local store/shop where I buy all my stuff.
They had to copy some larger programs to a DVD disk to make room on the old hard drive to operate.
Said Windows needs a min of 15% freee hard drive space to operate, and with only 180 MB free space, it was not working too good.
The Ghoost 2003 Error telling me the hard drive needed to be defraged also was due to no available space on the old hard drive.

The Un-readable Bios Setup screen was due to my Video card starting to go bad.

they made enough room on the old C:\ hard drive to make Ghoost 2003 work and they transfered my old hard drive to the new one.

But there in lies another challange.
the computer had the following drives:
a. C:\
b. CD rom drive=D:\
c. DVD RW drive=E:\
d. new hard drive = F:\
When complete it could boot from either the Old C:\ or the new F:\ depending which you selected in start up.

Before I took the computer from the shop, I had them remove the old C:\ hard drive and restart the PC to le the CMOS recognize it as the Primary HD which it did.
but windows still recognizes it as the F:\ drive.
Everything on the hard drive as far as programs and my attempts to download updates will not work as everything wants to find the old C:\

My AVG, Zone alarm does not start up, and everything else including Microsoft word cannot work or start up cause the Bios does not recognize the F:\, everything is looking for the C:\

How do I change the Designation of the F:\ drive back to the C:\ drive designation?
I am in Win XP Pro.

[bistro]

Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management. Right click on the old drive (which is named C) and change the drive letter to any designation except D, E, or F.. Then right-click on F and make it C. Reboot after making changes. Make sure your BIOS Boot Sequence is set to boot from C.

[chojin]

TBH, I would ditch Ghost and switch to Acronis, Ive just used it to clone 2 hd's in 2 PC's.

It works like a charm

Eg, adding a new hardisk is easy, install the HD
boot the PC, run acronis and choose clone drive.

It will then reboot and copy everything to the new harddisk
even giving you the option to increase partition sizes if the
new harddisk is bigger, as no doubt the new hd will be bigger.

Ive just bought Acronis True Image 9 Home version, i can
recomend this over ghost.

www.acronis.com

[towjoe42]

I did not have the time to mess with this anymore. I gave up and took it to a shop where I buy my computer stuff.
Told them I was trying to clone my old small hard drive to the new one I bought from them and gave up.
The shop did the clone with Ghost 2003 and when I picked it up they had the new drive as Primary Master, and put the old drive as Primary Slave.
I also had a CD Rom Drive and a DVD RW drive on the Secondary cable.
The tech said either Windows assigned the Drive letter to the new hard drive as F:\ or he did, not sure.
Anyway it started up and seemed to run fine.
When I got it home and tried to use it, it seemed not much would work right.
I cannot download and and save to the normal MY Download folder.
Seems windows cannot find F:\
I tried to save a word document and same problem.
My Zone alarm, and AVG antivirus do not load up, and if I go to the desktop icon or start menu they fail to open.
So it would seem that even though they or windows assigned the F:\ drive desigation to the new drive, the tech did not associate everything that was under the old C:\ to the new F:\.
Is there a simple way to change the new drive from F:\ back to the C:\ so everything will work? Thanks, Joe