Changing Boot Drive C: as default

Revulsion
01-13-2004, 03:24 PM
My primary drive is going bad which happens to be my master C: drive (15gig). I have another 80gig that is partition 10/70. Windows XP is on the 10gig and all my other programs are on the 70gig.

I need to switch my primary drive C: but I know windows won't load. Is there any program or settings to change that or to copy those files over?

Sounds confusing and I'm going crazy looking for my norton ghost cd right now...if you need more info post here and I'll let you know.

Basically I want to take whatever windows needs to lookat on C: drive and change it or plop it onto my new hard drive.

At0m|c
01-13-2004, 04:06 PM
PartitionMagic is probably the easiest if you haven't really done stuff like this before. :)

Link: http://www.powerquest.com/

Revulsion
01-13-2004, 04:15 PM
Actually just made a copy through norton ghost.

The stuff it looks for is the nt loader files like ntld etc..

I'm still wondering if there's a file I can modify to have windows look for the ntldr files on another partition.

iNVAR
01-13-2004, 04:21 PM
switch the positions of the drive once you've ghosted it.

make the slave into master, the master into slave.