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New HDD, OS installed on drive E, not C,
When my OS was installed on newHDD (not by me) it was installed without unplugging anything from the computer, anyway it ended up as E and my C drive is just sitting there. I have been told by some I need to redo immediately, others have said it makes no difference, but some of my older programs won't re-install on the E drive. any answers would help. I have been most annoyed by Dell service over this. Thanks Helen377
Davet50
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October 17th, 2009 14:00
open up the case and swap the position of the drive connections to the mother board.
Since you dont mention your system if you are using SATA put the E drive on SATA 0 if your are running IDE with the ribbon cable, check the jumpers on the back of the drive. IF not set to cable select(CS) then set the E drive as master and the C driver to slave. then place the E drive on the connector at the very end of the flat cable and the C driver to the middle connector.
Davet50
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October 17th, 2009 16:00
What is your computer model and what OS are you running?
helen377
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October 17th, 2009 16:00
ThanK you, I evidently did not explain my problem well, and I don't know how to do what you said, My new HDD has become an E drive and I do not have another HDD other than my passport, THe C drive is shown as a removeable device and asks for a disk when I tried it. all other drives are marked as what they are, ie A in usb, DVD burner is drive F, there simply is no way to get to C as I don't know where it went. It was a few hours after the OS was reinstalled before I found the HDD. I am not really smart when it comes to computers. I know it is Sata anfd can be set to ACHI or ATA. I really don't know what that is! Thanks
helen377
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October 17th, 2009 17:00
I have a Dell XPS210 with MS windows OS XP PRO 5.1.2600 Thanks