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by tonydgr8

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I installed a new 160 GB hard drive and I the 160GB as the Primary and my old 6GB as the Slave. I cloned my old hard drive, so I have everything that was on my old hard rive on my new one. My problem is, that my old hard drive(c:) is still the boot drive. I want to change my new hard drive(d:) to my boot drive. What is the process on doing this. My old hard drive hardly has any space left and always flashs the "low memory" on the screen and I always have to delete some stuff. I tranferred all my music and movies from my old drive to my new drive and deleted them from my old drive, but still it boots up from c: and I want it to boot up from d:.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.

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by robo_dev

by unplugging your old drive.

Then, assuming it's PATA (parallel ATA, jumper the new drive as primary (master) and your old drive as secondary or slave.

You may need to modify the partition table of the old drive to make it no longer be 'active' but I think just making it a secondary drive should work.

by nickt

see the drive if you take out the old one? you may need to changes its drive letter.

by dumphrey

and did you clone it to the new drive? Use a boot cd to get a full fdisk (be very careful not to wipe anything) and check that the active/bootable flag is set on the new drive. The clone software should have done this if it cloned the entire drive and not just the data partitions.

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