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Anonymous   05-10-2004 at 11:31:04 PM

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I took my computer in to a repair guy I later discovered is very unreliable. So this explains my reluctance to take it back.

Anyhow, I have two hard drives, a 19 GB and a 7 GB. When I took it in to this guy, the 19 GB drive was drive C: and when I got it back, the 7 GB drive was assigned as C. (He was simply replacing a bad memory card.) I'm having a bunch of problems due to the very small amount of space on the 7 GB drive. I have gone to Disk Management after right clicking on My Computer and choosing Manage, and tried to reassign the letter C. It tells me that I can't change the system drive.

Any ideas about how to fix this? Thanks so much.

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Duh   05-11-2004 at 09:15:32 AM
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You cannot change the drive letter of the partition that XP is running on.
You will need some 3rd party application to move your 7gb disk back to the
19 or do a clean install. I can't image what the repair guy did to swap
drives when he was just changing memory.

"aimeceleste" <aimeceleste@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:5C8394B0-60DD-408D-91CD-F04335EC388F@microsoft.com...
> I took my computer in to a repair guy I later discovered is very
unreliable. So this explains my reluctance to take it back.
>
> Anyhow, I have two hard drives, a 19 GB and a 7 GB. When I took it in to
this guy, the 19 GB drive was drive C: and when I got it back, the 7 GB
drive was assigned as C. (He was simply replacing a bad memory card.) I'm
having a bunch of problems due to the very small amount of space on the 7 GB
drive. I have gone to Disk Management after right clicking on My Computer
and choosing Manage, and tried to reassign the letter C. It tells me that I
can't change the system drive.
>
> Any ideas about how to fix this? Thanks so much.
>

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bar   05-11-2004 at 11:51:05 AM
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I know that it would take quite a lot of time and additional software [probably that you don't have installed on your PC] to accomplish the feat of moving files from one disk A to another B and again from B to A.

Again it would take time to reconfigure the interface cable and again more time to test and check that the system disk having been changed from one to another was actually working properly.

Why would he take the time to do all this and not be paid for wasting his time?

Just read about all the problems folks are having moving disks and uprading motherboards.

I think that when you talk to your repairer you'll find nothing has changed.

He can take the time to explain in detail what I am attempting to get across in less than 300 words.

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Anonymous   05-11-2004 at 10:16:04 PM
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I don't know...I sure paid him a lot for what I know now is a five minute job. Anyhow, he didn't move the files back from one drive to another. Somehow he switched my system drive from the big one to the little one, and I get a lot of error messages about not having enough space on my hard drive. But I have a larger harddrive that used to be assigned as C: just waiting to be used.

The stuff about partitions doesn't make sense to me either - I don't think he or I played around with those.

Thanks for the responses, though.

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Anonymous   05-13-2004 at 04:01:05 AM
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I'll do that. Thanks for the help.

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