Johnobrucy

Hey folks,

Well the time has come for me to pop a fat 120 GB HDD in my notebook. -Not that I really need it, but then again, I was one of those people a decade ago that said that no home PC owner would ever need a hard drive over the then outrageous achievement of 20 Gigs.

I have Norton Ghost installed on my present 80 GB HDD. I wish to simply clone my existing HDD onto my new 120GB HDD.

I tried to copy/clone once so far, but apparently because the new HDD wasn't formatted or partitioned, the old drive ended up being copied as a separate partition with the remaining space left "Unallocated".

Now I'm trying again. I've reformatted the new drive using XP, and made it into one active partition, but had not assigned a name to it. (A description "name"- yes, but not a letter.)
When I went to clone-copy again, Ghost gave me an error, of course with no description, but after a Google search I determined that it could not copy because the new disk partition needs a letter.
I assigned it "X".

-Will I end up with a HDD replacement that boots to "X:" instead of "C:"?
Will I be able to change it all back to "C:" with no trouble?
-I don't really care what it's called except that most program installations look for "C:\Program Files\...", right?

There was also one other option that I did not check on the copying menu for Ghost, and that was "Copy MBR? (For advanced configurations.)"
I'm assuming that's really only necessary if you have divided the drive up into a bunch of partitions, including smaller logical drives, etc?

Yet another reason to hate Norton; I spent a shitload of money on this software and they couldn't even furnish me with a decent instruction booklet!
I got the "Premiere!" package, which contains what appears to be simply the Norton AntiVirus instruction booklet, with nothing on Ghost or GoBack!
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