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C drive is know D drive

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by michambers

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After testing a bad hard drive (disconected cd-rom drive and conecting bad hard drive to cd-rom conection to try to read the bad drive) when we rebooted like this the cpu read the bad drive as C and the good drive as D now all my files still read asbeing on the D drive and that there is no C drive. So when the machine is started you get a window with on Icons or startup. You have to go in to task manager>file>new task run and then type Explorer.exe to bring up Icons but even then if I try to run any thing it looks for it on the C drive when it is now on the D drive. Please Help

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by dmiles

Boot the Computer and press key to enter CMOS panel
Go to list of drive configuration and select the drive listed as (c),highlight and select none,save and exit
This should remove the bad drive from the computer

by thechas

Check your IDE cableing.
By default, the first partition on the master or single drive on the first IDE channel is the "C" or boot drive.
If the CD drive was on channel 1, and the HD on 2, everything would be fine.
Adding the second HD to channel1 is why it is read as the "C" drive.

Also, double check the drive select jumpers. Some drives do not work well when set to master if there is no slave.

by scott

Both above answers are good, but you may also want to enter Safe Mode/Right-Click On My Computer/Click On Properties/Click The Device Manager Tab/Expand The Hard Drive List/And Remove The Bogus Drives That Are Building Up There. Best idea is to remove all of the drives, and windows will set-up the correct one when you re-boot into normal mode...Good Luck...

Scott@Gullys.com

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