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| Thread ID: 90069 | 2008-05-22 04:07:00 | I need some help by someone who knows | deno240 (13664) | Press F1 |
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| 671410 | 2008-05-22 04:07:00 | about the wires/cords and all the other insides of a drive box I have 2 hard drives (C and D) that are both used, C is around 20gb or maybe a little more or less and D is around 111gb, D used to be the default drive but when my computer needed fixing the guy who fixed it had made C the default drive. What do I do to get D back to the default drive again? I know it's just a matter of switching some cords over but I don't know, I had thought that switching the actual hard drives around so the other is on top, and the other is underneath but found out I was wrong and that wouldn't make a difference. I'm not the only one who uses the computer, so when the others download things they put them onto C drive which is almost full. Get what I'm meaning? I don't know anyone in Christchurch who knows about these kinds of things to do it for me, so thought I could try asking on here how to do it. |
deno240 (13664) | ||
| 671411 | 2008-05-22 04:15:00 | This may be what you need to know support.microsoft.com | kjaada (253) | ||
| 671412 | 2008-05-22 04:22:00 | With IDE drives there is generally a Master and a slave, depending on the cabling. But thats not what you are asking, nor is the physical arrangement relevant to your question. C: is the drive that Windows gets installed to. It will always become C: regardless of whether or not its Master or Slave. Generally though, th Master will become the boot drive, but it doesn't have to. If you manage to change it to D: it will stuff things up. You can't alter it now without either reinstalling everything or ghosting C: over to a new drive. Either educate people to install stuff in Custom mode - changing the default installation path to D:\XXXX or replace the 20GB with something bigger. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 671413 | 2008-05-22 06:15:00 | PCTEK is quite correct. Within Windows you can change the location of the "My Documents" folder so this is on the D: drive. This will not stop people adding to the C: drive but if you are using default save it will help:- Create a folder on the D: drive called Data or some other name like Docs. Under that you can have subdirectories like:- Fred Docs Pics Downloads Worksheets Letters Music Joe Docs And etc. If you create the right file folders it should work. |
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| 671414 | 2008-05-22 19:48:00 | When you did the start up with USB unplugged you did unplug the hub and not just the usb devices did you ? | kjaada (253) | ||
| 671415 | 2008-05-22 20:05:00 | OOPS WRONG THREAD !!!! | kjaada (253) | ||
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