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I recently ghosted everything on my 20g hdd to my new WD 80g SE hdd.
I then formatted the ol' 20g one.
I changed the jumpers around, then used PartitionMagic 7.0 to change the drive letters so that the 80g was C: and the 20g was D:
Anyway, everything seemed to be going just fine, until I checked in System Properties -> System Restore.
I was going to turn off System Restore on the 20g hdd, but I was met with the folliwng message:
A quick trip to My Computer revealed that there was 5g free on that drive, so I sincerely doubted that there wasn't enough space.
Anyway, it wasn't that much of a problem, because System Restore was still working on the other drive.
However, I had another problem when I went to Windows Update this morning to get the patches that microsoft has recently released...
They failed to install. All of them. They downloaded fine, but wouldn't install.
I went to install them to them from the download location, and discovered that it was, in fact, in a folder called WUtemp on the D: drive. Which my system now seems to think is the system drive.
Whenever I tried to run any of the updates, I got the error:
Of course, the Cryptographic service was running.
Anyway, does anyone know how to tell my stupid computer that the system drive is, in fact, C: instead of D:? Is there some registry key that'll help me here? I'm curious to see what would happen if I removed the 20g hdd from the computer and tried to boot it up...my computer might have fits about an absent system drive
But frankly, I can't be bothered...
Thanks in advance, guys!
I then formatted the ol' 20g one.
I changed the jumpers around, then used PartitionMagic 7.0 to change the drive letters so that the 80g was C: and the 20g was D:
Anyway, everything seemed to be going just fine, until I checked in System Properties -> System Restore.
I was going to turn off System Restore on the 20g hdd, but I was met with the folliwng message:
(D Suspended
(D is the system drive. You cannot turn off System Restore on this drive without turning it off on all drives. blah blah blah...
System Restore is suspended because there is not enough disk space available on one of the drives. To restart system restore, click Disk Cleanup blah blah...
Disk space to use:
3% (630MB)
A quick trip to My Computer revealed that there was 5g free on that drive, so I sincerely doubted that there wasn't enough space.
Anyway, it wasn't that much of a problem, because System Restore was still working on the other drive.
However, I had another problem when I went to Windows Update this morning to get the patches that microsoft has recently released...
They failed to install. All of them. They downloaded fine, but wouldn't install.
I went to install them to them from the download location, and discovered that it was, in fact, in a folder called WUtemp on the D: drive. Which my system now seems to think is the system drive.
Whenever I tried to run any of the updates, I got the error:
Setup could not verify the integrity of the file Update.inf. Make sure the Cryptographic service is running on this computer.
Of course, the Cryptographic service was running.
Anyway, does anyone know how to tell my stupid computer that the system drive is, in fact, C: instead of D:? Is there some registry key that'll help me here? I'm curious to see what would happen if I removed the 20g hdd from the computer and tried to boot it up...my computer might have fits about an absent system drive
But frankly, I can't be bothered...
Thanks in advance, guys!