Any way to update all shortcut targets after hard drive upgrade?

I just upgraded my harddrive from a 40gb to a 120gb Seagate. I made the new hard drive the Master, but kept the old hard drive in as slave (I plan to reformat it and use it for storage). I'm running XP Pro SP2 on a Dell Dimension 4100 (PIII).

I copied the former hard drive C: to the new hard drive F: using Norton Ghost 2003. The problem is as follows:

All my shortcut targets (in my Object Dock, and in the Start menu All Programs menu) continue to have the C: drive programs as their targets. Since the C: drive is still in, the programs open. I went in and changed a bunch to F: drive programs manually, but there has to be a better way, especially when it comes to all the programs in the All Programs menu (everything, and I mean everything still has C: as the target). Is there some way to automatically transfer all the shortcut targets to F:? I mean, what would have happened if I took the C: drive out? Would none of my programs work from the drop down menus? It doesn't make any sensehttp://www.windowsbbs.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
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Anyone who could help, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

 

You did not copied the HD. You copied the CONTENTS of the HD.

I read is as the fact that you copied the original HD which contained the PARTITIONS C: D: E: which would make the new HD when used as a slave become F: G: H:.

I am betting heavily on the fact that if you installed the new HD as Master it would work just fine. I copied a 40gig to an 80gig, put it ( the 80 ) in by itself and all was OK.

In other words I agree with Steve.

BillyBob

 

Is there any way to correct this at this point. You are both right that when I booted up the first time after I completed the copy that I left both drives in. Actually, what I did was change the jumpers, then placed the 120GB in the slot for the primary drive and plugged in the black end of the IDE cable to it, then placed the old 40GB drive in the secondary drive slot, and attached the gray end of the IDE cable to that. So, the new drive was set as Master, the old drive as slave, but both were in for the first boot up. Could I, at this point, simply remove the old drive and boot up? Would the new drive then be recognized as C:? Currently, disk management states that F: is the System drive, while C: is a "Page File" drive.

What you're saying makes sense though. I'm just wondering if there's anyway to cure this now?

Thanks for your helpful explanation, in any case.

-m

 

You ask; " Is there any way to correct this at this point. "

My answer; " I do not know. "

And I also say that I am thoroughly confused when you mention Black and Gray cable ends.

I am thinking ( thinking only ) That if the old drive still works when plugged in as Master I would reformat the new drive and then re-copy but make sure that the new HD is the only one in and set as Master before booting that unit to it.

I also wonder about whether the way you set the new HD up the first time caused any references to various programs to be changed.

Another wild idea.
That may work for starting the program itself. But I am guessing that there may well be references within the various programs themselves that would be wrong. I mention this because I have a couple of Programs that run from D: but have auto backups set to H: ( on the HD ) and I: ( CDROM )

OOPS !! That adds another thought. With the way you did thing DID IT CHANGE the CDROM Letter. And with both HDs in service I would think strongly that it did.

But I am thinking ( there is that word think again ) that the best thing for you to do right now is to get the original HD back in place and make sure that nothing on it has been mess up.

BillyBob

 

Billy Bob:

CD-ROM lettering did not change, and basically, everything is running fine. My documents and everything else is going to the F: drive, and all the start up prgrams are running off F:. . The only real issue I see is the shortcut targets. I'm guessing these are defaulted to C: as Master, and that they'd be just as happy to run off F: if everything's there. I also checked both discs and everything is working fine.

As for the cables, I was only referring to the color-coded connection points of IDE cables, where blue is meant to go into the motherboard, gray to the slave, and black to the Master. This seems fairly standard.

I might redo the whole operation sometime this week, and will let you know how it goes if I do. As it stands, XP recognizes F: as the system disk, and everything seems to be running fine off F:, so I'll probably just keep it. I am repartitioning this week (120 GB unpartitioned...I don't think so! ), but I don't see any problems there.

Thanks! Was just trying to avoid manually changing all the shortcut targets!