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Posted by: stephe

I upgraded a Gateway 4200 with a new hard drive and installed XP professional on the new drive. I made the new drive the master and the old drive the slave.

Before: Win NT, 13G HD partioned into C: = 2G, D: = 11 G, 2 CD drives, E: & F:

Now: Win XP professional on G: drive, other drives as before.

The system recognizes G: as the OS drive. When I install drivers it automatically puts them on the G: drive. The system is working OK.

I expected that The new drive would have been designated as C:. What happened?

I am going to repartion the C:/D: drives into one drive. Will G: revert to C: then?

Can I manually designate G: as C:?

Stephe

Posted by: Seloce

did you install winXP onto the other drive while your NT drive was still in?

Posted by: stephe

After I installed the new hard drive, I booted up from the XP CD.

Posted by: Seloce

but was NT4 still your main OS at the time of the install?