Change Primary Drive For Operating System
Mar 6, 2010
I was about to reformat my C: (that has an nonworking windows partition) from my current partition D:. I went to my Computer D Management and it said that my C: was a primary partition [green] while my current one was a logic partition blue.boxed in green. Someone at Yahoo! Answers said not reformat the C: because it would screw up my D; Drive. Is it safe? What should I do? I just wish to use my C drive for data storage and my D drive as a Windows partition.
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Sep 15, 2005
i stuck the cd in and followed the prompt to do a clean install. after the whole process i noticed that it was installed on the d: partition of my harddrive and not on the c: the original win2000 is still installed on the c: drive. how do i remove the original from the c: drive and move the d: to the c: because the c: drive has a larger partition.
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I'm in the market for a new desktop but don't like that I'm forced to have Vista as my OS in it. Seeing as how the selsction of (new) machines with XP is basically nonexistent, can I change the OS to XP with minimal trouble? After reading and hearing all the horror stories, I'd prefer to wait until Vista has all the bugs worked out before going that route.
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I did a reformat of my computer. I disconnected my external drive but I also had a smaller drive (internal) labeled D that I use. Well, I just noticed after installing all software and updates that for some reason the C drive is now labeled D and vice versa. Why did this occur and can I change it. I always heard the primary drive should be labeled C.
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Oct 26, 2007
I just purchased a new hard drive and when I boot to the XP Pro CD I press Enter to install XP but I get the following screen. "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer". This is the only hard drive in the system.
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Dec 19, 2007
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I created a mess (but I'm learning more each day), and after a week got it going at least, but on boot got messagae "primary hard disc drive 1 not found" which required clicking F1 to continue. I ended up reinstalling XP, got everything up and running, but still have the HD message at each boot. I've passed all of the diagnostics in Set-Up, and found nothing on any of the troubleshooting sites that helped. Set-up says: Primary Drive 0 - Hard Drive; Primary Drive 1 - Unknown Device; Secondary Drives 0 adn 1 are both CD-ROM Readers. Everything works just fine, but I'd like to figure the drive problem. I had to create a partition for the reinstall - had no choice.
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I have Vista,I have another drive,but it's currently not available to use.What I want to do is to get a Cruzer Micro 2GB,and format it to have a bootup for Windows XP. Would it permanently damage the flash drive in any way?
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i got 2 installed versions of XP and one is on my D: drive which is my recovery drive and i need to uninstall that version i know how to do it from the control panel but the problem is i cant log on it its not activated and i don't have the product key anymore but im on the other version installed and it works fine i don't know if there is a way to access the d: drive from command prompt and do it that way or what or the recovery console perhaps
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Jul 23, 2009
My problem is a result of a long series of attempts to fix a corrupt Windows registry file. A few days ago I booted my laptop and received a blue screen error: c0000218, relating to a corrupt Windows registry file. Windows could not load. After a lot of searching online I found a way to manually replace this and four other related files from the c:WindowsRepair folder using the command prompt.
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