Changing drive letters

I recently upgraded my hard drive from a WD 40gig to a WD 60gig hard drive under Windows XP Pro. I am trying to move all my information over without reformatting(which I did thanks to Norton Ghost 2002), however I am running into one problem. I cannnot change the drive letter on my 60gig to C:, I changed the 40gig to something else by changing the pagefile address so I could rename the drive letter. However when I try to change the drive letter of the system volume, I am told I cannot change the system/boot volume. Is there a way around this, or am I just stuck

Thanks

Scott

 

Not really. Your system / boot volume is in use, there fore you can change it.
Unless you modify your registry, (which I wouldn't recommend).

 

Will it boot and show the 60GB drive as c: if you remove the 40GB drive and boot without it? Then with the 60GB set as your bootable drive you could format the 40GB (since you put all of its info on the 60) and add it after the format as any drive letter you want.

 

I wish it worked like that, but XP stores the volume info on the drive so you don't loose drive lettersor have them swap around on you. I already tried doing that and it ends up rendering XP unbootable

 

Have you set the jumpers on the 60 GB to Primary Master and the 40 GB to Primary Slave ??.

 

Yep, sure did. I even set them up on seperate IDE chains, however that didn't do much to help

 

I had a similar problem when I installed XP on a drive with my w98 drive hooked up, it made the XP drive letter H: , which although it didn't seem to hurt anything, just didn't seem right.
I set about to change it following instructions from MS I found in a KB article. It involved logging on as admin and running the two different registry editors in a strange fashion, the first step I skipped since I had administrator privelages. I could not boot anything afterward, and suffice it to say, I ended up formatting the drive again and reloading.
...I had to leave the w98 drive unhooked to get XP to be C:. BTW....I wish it were easier to set up a dual boot with w98 after XP was loaded as well...