Setting default HD after reformatting

[IronChefM]

Hello, I recently added a new HD to my computer and installed a fresh copy WinXP onto it. This drive shows up as H: and I: (two partitions). But WinXP still thinks that my old C: is the default drive. How do I set the I: partition as my new default c: drive (i.e.- where My Documents will be located)

thanks!

 

[RemyCanad]

I am confused by what you did. Could you expain to me what steps you took...

 

[IronChefM]

sure!

1. I start off with my old sluggish hard drive (HD1) with WinXP running. This is my C:

2. I install a new hard drive (HD2) and set that as the master drive. I also install WinXP on this drive to since I plan to make it my "main drive"

3. I format HD2 with two partitions, Partition1 being about 5 gigs for Windows and Program files, Partition2 for storage space

4. Whenever I save a document, the "My Documents" shortcut button points to the old My Documents folder on HD1. How do I set the new My Doc folder on HD2 to be the default?



thank you!

 

[Mavrick007]

This is a bit confusing but if I follow you correctly, you are asking why the new OS isn't booting up? How to get around this and make sure that it boots and uses the new documents folder?

Well there's a couple of ways you can make things work. You can go to the bios and point the machine to the correct drive to boot from, which I wouldn't suggest(cause you have 2 copies of WinXP on there and it's not needed). Or you could extract all the data that you need from the old C: drive and then blow WinXP away on the old drive(just delete WinXP). Then after you do this, make sure your new drive is master, old is slave or secondary master or whatever, and allow it to boot from this as your new C: drive. I would probably just reformat the new drive and start from scratch after deleting the WinXP OS from the old hard drive.