Changing to a new boot drive?

[Reverend]

I want to add a drive and make the new drive the boot drive, what do I have to do?

Thanks - rev

[SuperSparks]

Reinstall Windows 7 on it is the short answer.

[Reverend]

Thanks, good tip!

So I don't have to change the SATA cable or designate the new drive as 'Drive 0'?

Nothing like that? It's just going to know which one to boot to?

[SuperSparks]

Yes indeed

[Steve R Jones]

hmmmm....If you add a drive to a pc that already has a bootable OS - you'll end up with a DUAL BOOT...Have a feeling that isn;t waht your're wanting to do..

[Reverend]

Exactly. It gave me a dual boot menu but did not list which installation was on which disk.

I chose the correct one by assuming the latest to be the first in the list. Then I got rid of the other one.

I have what I want now but my boot drive is Disk 2, I would have preferred them lettered and numbered sequentially, C: being Disk 0, D: being Disk 1, and so on.

Not a big deal, I'll just suffer for the rest of my life.

[Train]

C: being Disk 0, D: being Disk 1

Switch the connectors on the mobo. Should take care of that I believe.

[SuperSparks]

You will never get Windows to do that. I don't know why it feels the need to randomly order the drives, but it does On my latest build, I very carefully made sure that the Windows drives was plugged into SATA port 0, but it still ended up as drive 2 in Disk Management. It was the same in XP and Vista too. If you ever reinstall Windows, you'll find that the drives and drive letters are all over the place again.