How Do I Make My New Hard Drive The System's Hard Drive (C:)?

So I've Asked Yahoo! About 5 Answers Considering My New Hard Drive. Im Having Trouble Making It My Main One Because My Hard Drive Constantly Crashes.





When I Right Click 'My Computer' And Click 'Manage'. I Get A New Screen Which List Many Different Things. When I Click Disk Management. It Shows The Following...





-HP_Pavilion (The Name Of The OLD Hard Drive)


It's Drive C: And It Says System. And I Cannot Change The Drive Letter.





-My New Hard Drive Became Drive E:


-Currently The Slave Hard Drive Because It Would Not Boot As A Master Even Though I Have 'COPIED EVERYTHING ' From The Old Hard Drive.





-How Do I Make My New Hard Drive, C:?

How Do I Make My New Hard Drive The System's Hard Drive (C:)?
the only way to safely do this is to reinstall your entire system from scratch.





when the windows first starts to install, it should be a blue screen, all text. it will ask you which partition u wish to install windows. you want to make sure you select the new drive.





the new drive, if done properly, should be the new c:, your old c: will now be d:, and ur cdrom drive should become e:
Reply:Only way to change that is to install OS on it (windows, linuxs ect..). first put the new hard drive as main hard drive, you will see on the back of it jumper switch (it is peace of plastic) put it in place as Master (described on label of HD) and install OS to it..
Reply:Actually there are some little "shorting blocks " on the drive that must be physically repositioned to configure the drive as a master or slave. The hard drive label will have a diagram that indicates which positions the block should ne arranged in. You are only allowed 1 master and 1 slave on the same cable.
Reply:boot into your bios by pressing esc, f8, or something along those lines. then change your boot order to that drive first





or you can swap the hard drives, put the slave in the master slot, and vice versa. just make sure youre changing the pins from master to slave and slave to master
Reply:Copying everything does NOT make a boot drive, it needs a proper install to correctly write the boot sector and boot system. In any case you can NOT change the drive letter of a system drive. You need to fit the new drive as primary master, then the old drive as a slave or as secondary master. Boot from the OS cd and run a repair install on the new drive, if you have copied enough it may fool the installer into believing it is a system drive. If you copied from the old drive while it was running, many files will NOT have copied as system files are protected. Ultimately you may need to do a clean install on the new drive, and then re-install ALL software. You may then be able to copy any data from the old drive to the new one, but remember you may be copying whatever was causing it to crash.
Reply:You need to format your new drive (be sure to back up all data on it). Then, physically disconnect the old one (HP_PAVILION) from your computer and connect the new one in its place. Install Windows XP on the new drive. It should be C now. Once XP is installed, connect the old drive and copy all your data onto the new one (except the Windows folder).

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