Adding Another HDD

I don't know if you can switch the active Windows drive letter any easy way.

The other problem will be getting the new drive to be drive E:
Do you presently have 2 hard drives installed?
If so, then the new drive will be E: by default.
If not,the primary partition on the new drive will default to D:, making the logical drive on the old HDD drive E:

If you have separate physical drives, I would install the new drive as the D: drive, and use the drive manufactures utility program to copy the existing D: drive onto it.

Chas

Ok, so we have 2 partitions on 2 seperate disks, correct? Now, to get those files onto another HDD... you could try a utility such as Norton Ghost or DriveImage. That will mirror all the files so that

Drive 1 -> Drive 2

It is almost impossible for this to occur, since there are many ancilliary files

OS 1 -> Drive 2

Now, if you wanted to just change the drive letters, you can use the Disc Management in the Computer Management MMC.

Now, since this is what I can interpret, it could be incorrect. Please, tell me if you need more info, and if you do, try and be a tad more clear.

Maelgwyn

Just a side note to what others have answered:
Something to look out for with this sinario, is with NTFS5. As soon as you hook up a larger drive to the system as a secondary drive, your boot files are automatically transferred to the larger hard drive. If you ever pull either one of those hard drives out of the system later, the system will not boot.

Now I have have decided I'll purchase a New HDD of 40 GB. The existing systme is FAT 32.
I want to copy all data including applications and operating system to new HDD and boot from New HDD.
Will it be possible ?
if yes How ?

This question was closed by the author