XP Home issues

WinXP Home was originally on a 40gb HD, and a 30gb was slaved for data and this drive was failing according to the Seagate diagnostic tool and the sounds it was making. The 40gb was almost full (and only 5400rpm) and the PCs owner upgraded to a 160gb; the main partition is 110gb, and the remainder was for the old 30gb. The 30gb drive copied to the 2nd partition w/o incident. Ghost wouldn't copy the 40gb drive without erroring, so I used a util on the UBCD4Win and it worked great.... BUT: For some reason, Windows sees the main partition as drive G: and not C:, and the 2nd partition is H:. The 2 optical drives are D: and E:. There's no media reader or external drives, and has never had any hooked up, ever. So I have no idea how this happened. How do I correct this? How can I get G: to be labeled as C:? With the main drive as G: none of the installed software will run, because it's all been setup for C:... So, is it possible to reassign a drive letter to a boot drive without starting over? According to the MS Knowledge Base, the answer is "no". Hopefully someone here can shed some light.....
Thanks!

 

Problem solved... if anyone gives a :crap here's what I did: I deleted the 110gb partition, then formatted it using xplorer2 in the UBCD4Win using a quick format. I did NOT assign a letter or path to it. I then copied the 40gb drive to the 110gb partition again using the UBCD4Win (DriveCloneXP is the util's name). I then booted to the original boot drive, the 40gb, with the new hard drive slaved. Using Disk Management, I made the 110gb partition active, again WITHOUT assigning a path or drive letter. I shut down, and moved the cable, and booted to the 110gb partition. It booted as drive C!!! Not drive G!!! BUT- it only sees the 110gb partition as 38gb, and the original 40gb was FAT32, so not only is the size wrong, but it's FAT32. Into the command prompt I go. I typed convert c: /fs:ntfs to convert it to NTFS. I answered No to the question about forcing a drive dismount, and Yes to the "do I want to schedule the conversion for the next reboot" question. I typed "exit" and rebooted. The drive converted to NTFS after running a chkdsk (which is what the convert command does), and now all is well. The drive is labled C:, it's NTFS, and the partition sizes are correct, and everything is freekin' beautiful!
:celebrate :dancer :hyper :highfive :drink

 

Wow! Not my answer

Quick questions just for my personal Knowledge Base:
1) How did you partition the new drive originally. [When you made the 110gb and 45gb partitions? Which program did you use?]

2) When you first booted the 110gb drive was the old 40gb HD still connected?

Thanks