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I recently cloned (using Ghost 15.0) my 200gb C drive to 500gb Z(in a USB attached enclosure). After the clone successfully? ended, I did have 2 duplicate drives. After removing power and battery, I swapped out the old C with the new Z. Booted in safe mode, ran Task mgr, and ran Regedit. In it I changed old C to a Q drive, and then changed Z to the C drive. I turned off machine and rebooted... seemingly successful. It found the new C and all was right with the world.

Problems:

  • Email won't start unless, the Q drive (old C) is attached. (I was hoping to re-format the Q and use it in the external enclosure as additional hard drive space.)
  • There is no indexing of the new drive, and everything runs... slowly.
  • I was looking for a place to re-install Windows Mail, (came with the Vista OS), but found out that that was a no-no.

My computer is:

  • HP Pavilion DV 6500
  • SP1 and SP2 applied to Windows Vista
  • Dual Core Intel chips 1GB each
EBGreen
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Joe Loop
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I'm not sure why you went into the registry to change drive letters. . .

What you should of done was go into BIOS Setup and have your new drive as the startup drive.

In general, Windows assigns drive letter C to the startup drive, no matter what.

surfasb
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