Changing Boot HD

I am running XP Pro SP2 in with an AMD Anthlon 64 3000+ processor (1800 GH) on a Gigabyte motherboard and 1 Gig of RAM. I have been running with two IDE drives and a WD 250 Gig SATA drive, which contains the Operating System on one of its partitions.

Recently I discovered that the WD disk is corrupt, so I bought a new, identical WD 250 Gig SATA disk and decided to move everything from the old WD to the new WD. After the new disk was installed, I partitioned the new WD the same as the old WD and ghosted the C: partition on the old WD with Acronis. Now I have to install the OS data onto the new WD and make the new WD containing the operating system files the boot directory. I know I have to change the drive letter for the new WD partition to “C” and make some changes in BIOS, but I am not sure exactly what those steps, and their sequence, are. I’m sure there are some very easy to use guides out there, but I’ve tried googling, with no results. Can anyone help?

Thanks for your support!

 

I'm not sure of exactly what you did when you "ghosted" the C: partition on your old drive -- but I would have thought Acronis would create an exact image of your old C: partition on the new drive -- including an exact copy of your OS.

I'm also assuming that when you installed the new drive, you hooked it up as something other than the primary master.

If so, all you should need to do is set up the new drive as the primary master in your system. Assuming that your BIOS has the default boot settings, the first primary partition on whatever drive is the primary master becomes your C: drive.

If your hard drives are set to "Auto" in your BIOS, you won't likely need to make any explicit changes there. Your BIOS should make the necessary changes for your hard drives settings automagically.