C Drive Problem Help Please

Hi McD

Not seeing your external drives being listed as floppies in your image above but as normal removable drives, is it one of your external drives that was originally set as D?

If it was then you can change it back as D and this can be done in Disk Managment (Control Panel > Adminsitrative tools > Computer Managment > Disk Managment)

Once in Disk Management right click the D drive your DVD/CDROM in the bottom window and choose Change Drive Letters and Paths, click Change then give the DVD/CDROM a letter like X for now, then change the external drive you want as D by the same method but change it to D, then you can change the DVD/CDROM to the letter you want, so long as another device is not using it.

 

Hi

Feared this was going to be one of those lost in translation type things, looking at your Disk Managment screen you only have one physical hard drive, everything else is a removable HD or USB pen, plus the CDROM.

So question is did you originally have only one HDD and partitioned it into C: and D:? or is one of your removable drives the original D drive?

Or do you actually have two physical HDDs in this PC?


This is my Disk Managment screen and the highlighted Green drives are 1 physical HDD thats partitioned into two drives, the Orange highlighed is a USB drive that needs to be plugged in to show its Layout /Type and Filesystem. Was your C Drive partitioned like the ones highlighted in Green?

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2363/19466978.jpg

If in your re-install you formated the full main hard drive into one drive, opposed to two then you will need to repartition the C drive into two, but need to make sure this is what you did before going down the re-partion route.

*will be offline for a bit, have things to attend to but I will revisit your thread ASAP or someone else will take up the assistance as we normally do here.

 

Hi McD


I see now, the drive must have originally been partitioned, re-installing and no doubt re-partitioning an formatting the drive made it one large drive.

Its not going to hurt anything leaving the one large drive, personally I tend to keep my personal stuff on a seperate hard drive from the main C drive, hence you see a few in my PC (C: just has Windows and applications), however partitioning can at times go wrong, there are applications to help you partition, but its wise to backup all your personal data first, and Gparted is a free bootable live CD that can do this reletively safely.

If you wish to partition the drive, we can do that?

Will need ImgBurn and Gparted Live ISO and a blank CDR or CDRW disk.

Steps to do this I can type up if you wish to go ahead with partitioning and I have reburned Gparted to CD again to go through the menus in new version.


But as you have your PC running well now after the re-install, its a risk to partition, so up to you.