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Windows 7 - Swapping drive letters |
04-05-2011
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#1 | | Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit |
Swapping drive letters Is it possible to swap drive letters around?
I want to swap the C: drive to be the F: drive, is this possible?
Thanks
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500 GB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
500 GB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
1 TB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 32MB
250GB External HD Internet Speed 16MB D/L - 1MB Upload |
04-05-2011
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swapping the system drive is harder than swapping other drives, and I don't recommend it.
is there a reason why you want C to be F? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HAL-9000 OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit CPU Intel i7 2600K @ 4.44Ghz Motherboard Asus P8P67 Pro Rev 3.1 Memory 16GB DDR3 1333 Corsair XMS3 Graphics Card XFX HD5850 1GB EyeFinity Sound Card Logitech G35 & Sennheiser PC135 & VIA HD Monitor(s) Displays 23" HP 2310e, 23" Samsung B2230, 21.5" Viewsonic Screen Resolution 5760x1080 Keyboard Logitech G15 and G13 Mouse Logitech G700 Gaming Mouse PSU Antec True Power New 650watt Case Cooler Master HAF-932 Cooling Corsair H60 Hydro Cooler, 3x 230mm Fans, 2x120mm Fan Hard Drives 16TB of Storage
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04-05-2011
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#3 | | Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit |
The F: drive is the new hard drive and is faster than the older C: drive. I'm cloning the current C: drive and I want to make it bootable in the end. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit CPU Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz 8MB Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V Pro Memory Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz Graphics Card Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 - 1GB GDDR5 Sound Card On Board Monitor(s) Displays Samsung Syncmaster B2430HD 24' Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Razer Black Widow Ultimate Mouse Logitech G5 PSU Corsair TX650M PSU Case ANTEC Nine Hundred Gamers Case Cooling 2 x 120mm Front, 1 x 120mm CM Sickleflow, 1 x 200mm Top Fan Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SATA-III SSD
500 GB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
500 GB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
1 TB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 32MB
250GB External HD Internet Speed 16MB D/L - 1MB Upload |
04-05-2011
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#4 | | Windows 7 Pro x64 / WinXP Pro x86 on (1), Win7 Pro X64 / WinXP Pro x86 on (2) |
Why wouldn't you want to (or expect to) end up with a new C on the new drive?
Are you planning on ending up with TWO hard drives in the machine? And you simply want to move your current C on the old drive to the new drive? It will have to remain C (from its own perspective) even if transplanted onto the new physical drive.
You'll need to change your BIOS to make that new drive "hard disk #1", i.e. the boot drive, in order to boot from it. And the installed Windows 7 boot manager will still letter it as C (from its own perspective).
Your old drive, if you retain it, will be assigned the new drive letter (F, if you want, anything else that you want using DISKMGMT.MSC)... when booting to Windows 7 now transplanted onto the new drive. But that newly transplanted and re-located Windows 7 will always see itself as C.
I'm assuming that your "cloning" process also creates the 100MB "system reserved"partition on the new drive, as that is truly the "active bootable partition" in which Windows 7's boot manager files are located for a 1-OS "from scratch install" environment. Those boot manager files in turn by default (in a 1-OS environment) automatically and instantly (without any action from you) select the OS contained in the actual Windows 7 partition to truly boot to, assigning it drive letter C. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Home-built, two systems (1) and (2) OS Windows 7 Pro x64 / WinXP Pro x86 on (1), Win7 Pro X64 / WinXP Pro x86 on (2) CPU E6850 3.0Ghz/4MB-cache (1); E8400 3.0Ghz/6MB-cache (2) Motherboard SuperMicro C2SBX (1); ASUS P5Q3 (2) Memory 4GB PC3-8500 DDR3 (1); 4GB PC3-10600 DDR3 (2) Graphics Card ATI HD4850 (1); ATI HD5770 (dual-DVI) (2) (see TV cards) Sound Card Realtek ALC883 HD Audio (1); Realtek ALC1200 HD Audio (2) Monitor(s) Displays Eizo 24" S2433W (1); Eizo HD2441W LCD, Eizo S2433W (2) Screen Resolution 1920x1200 (1); 1920x1200, 1920x1200 (2) Keyboard IBM PS/2 (1) and (2) Mouse Microsoft wired (1); Logitech MX Revolution wireless (2) PSU Nesteq ECS-6001 600W (1); Nesteq ECS-5001 500W (2) Case Acousti-Case 360 (1) and (2) Cooling Zalman CNPS9700-NT for CPU, 2x120mm case fans (1) and (2) Hard Drives (1) 1x1TB SATA (7200 RPM), 1x300GB U320 SCSI (10000RPM), 1x750GB SATA (7200RPM), 1x150GB SATA (10000RPM) for OS;
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04-05-2011
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#5 | | Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit |
I see, thanks for giving me an insight into this | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom OS Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit CPU Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz 8MB Motherboard Asus P8Z68-V Pro Memory Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz Graphics Card Asus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 - 1GB GDDR5 Sound Card On Board Monitor(s) Displays Samsung Syncmaster B2430HD 24' Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080 Keyboard Razer Black Widow Ultimate Mouse Logitech G5 PSU Corsair TX650M PSU Case ANTEC Nine Hundred Gamers Case Cooling 2 x 120mm Front, 1 x 120mm CM Sickleflow, 1 x 200mm Top Fan Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SATA-III SSD
500 GB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
500 GB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
1 TB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 32MB
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