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I just got the 7200.4 HDD and am copying over the contents of my primary drive; the new momentus will be the drive that I boot from. How should I go about changing the drive letter? Does it make a difference if I assign my current C drive to D, and then change the new drive to C? Or should I first remove the old drive, install the new one, and then rename? I'm asking because I don't want to permanently break any shortcuts or system files that get written to and are expected to be in the OS partition. Is there a danger of that? I've installed hard drives before, but never a primary so I don't know what the expected pitfalls are.
I have another question too. I set Acronis to clone my current drive onto the new one and went out of town to a family event; when I came back, I realized that there had been a power outage while I was gone. I had put the new HDD into an external enclosure while cloning onto it, and the enclosure had obviously lost power. When I got home, neither the external drive nor my secondary internal drive were being read. I reassigned the old drive letter to the internal drive and it seems to be working fine from what I can tell. I haven't tried to assign a drive letter to the external drive, pending a response to my first paragraph, but I'm worried that the outage may have damaged it. I downloaded SeaTools to run diagnostics before I even started cloning, but it always freezes while "scanning for supported drives". Is there any other program that I should run to make sure there's no hardware damage? I'm planning to re-clone the partition in any event, but first I need to ensure that the HDD itself is healthy.
Thanks in advance.
Making new OS partition
Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Danja, Aug 19, 2009.
