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Can I change my new SSD drive to be the C: drive?
Hello all. The title is the basic question I have, and if possible, how?
Here's the back story. Got a new Dell XPA One 2710. It came with a 1T HD, but I intended to install a 256mb SSD (MSATA into the mini-card slot on the motherboard) and transfer the Windows 7 Home Premium installation to the SSD. I went through all the initial Dell set-up stuff, then removed the hidden Dell Recover and FAT 32 diagnostic partitions after copying the boot manager files from the Recovery partition to the C: partition, following instructions I'd found elsewhere. No problems doing that and the computer booted up correctly several time after doing so.
I then made an image of the C: drive to an external HD, and then copied the C: drive to the SSD, labeled F:. After aligning the partition to the SSD, had no trouble booting to the SSD after changing the boot order in the BIOS. Then I went to change the drive letter of the SSD to C: using the 'change drive letter and paths' in the Disk Management window. It wouldn't let me change F: to C:, so I figured (wrongly, apparently) that I first needed to change C: to something else, then change F: to C:, that seemed to work, until I re-started, and nothing worked after that and no amount of system repair would get things working. So I did a restore from my image back to the OEM 1T HD.
Long story, and if you're still reading this, thank you, and I'd appreciate any advise. Thank you much!