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Offline redsniper

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Re: Possibly buying new hardware
Not yet. I've just been getting things reinstalled and updated. I've got some weirdness going on where Windows is calling my 200GB drive (with Windows on it) a 'boot drive' and my 1TB storage drive a 'system drive.' Which I don't understand because I don't remember installing anything windows-related on there. Anyhow, because of this I can't change the drive letters, and I'm bothered by my windows drive being D and my storage drive being C.
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Offline Bob-san

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Re: Possibly buying new hardware
Not yet. I've just been getting things reinstalled and updated. I've got some weirdness going on where Windows is calling my 200GB drive (with Windows on it) a 'boot drive' and my 1TB storage drive a 'system drive.' Which I don't understand because I don't remember installing anything windows-related on there. Anyhow, because of this I can't change the drive letters, and I'm bothered by my windows drive being D and my storage drive being C.
Unplug the 1TB drive and reinstall. What happened was the 1TB drive was the first boot hard drive, so it earned itself C:\. Similarly, watch out with memory card readers. If it's a new build with the MCR, Windows ends up being on like G:\.
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Offline redsniper

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Re: Possibly buying new hardware
so are there some actual files on the 1TB making it a 'system' drive, and if so, won't they still be there if I unplug it and reinstall on the 200GB?
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Offline Bob-san

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Re: Possibly buying new hardware
Right now, the MBR is located on the 1TB drive. As I said, just reinstall Windows with only the 200GB drive, so that a new MBR is written to that drive. But yeah--you have to set it as the first hard drive to boot from. And the 1TB drive will be just fine--it has the files but they're not in use. If you'd be worried about that, just format it.
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