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How to change from Cloned F: drive to the former D: drive

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Desktop D: drive got drive.

Bought, installed, and formatted same size (2TB) disk.

Then cloned it, turning off computer afterwards

Removed old D Drive from computer and don't know how to get the new drive designated as D.  Tried to change the drive letter in Disk Management tools and error message would not allow.

Do I need to do something in BIOS?

Need some specific advice please.

 

 

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James, welcome to these user forums.

Please provide some more information to allow us to try to help you with your question?

What version of Acronis True Image are you using?
What version of Windows OS is being used?
How many disk drives are installed in your computer?
What was on your original Desktop D: drive?
How did you perform the clone operation?  Was this from within Windows, or did you use the Acronis bootable Rescue Media (on USB or CD)?

Some screen shots of what is shown in Windows Disk Management for the drives in your computer would help clarify what you are seeing.

Thanks for response Steve.

Windows 10,

Latest Acronis Image 2017 bought from Amazon and updated with latest install from Acronis today.

C:  with the operating system is 125GB SSD
D: is 2TB Toshiba  SATA 6Gb/s 7200-RPM 64 Cache  it is the failing data disk I need to replace
F:  is new Seagate 2TB FireCuda 3.5-Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200-RPM 64 Cache SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) (ST2000DX002)
H:  is a new 1tB Western Digital Drive I am using for backup.  Have taken that one off line until I sort out this issue replacing the D Drive.

D: Drive is fine so far and had music, pics and other home stuff.   About half a TB

I cloned within windows  Not sure

All I want to do is just get the replacement drive to look like the old D: Drive. 

 

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James, thanks for the further information which makes things a lot clearer.

You should be able to resolve the drive letters by using the options in Windows Disk Management, but the first step should be to remove to failing Toshiba 2TB Sata drive, then restart the computer and see what drive letters are assigned.

If one of your other drives has been assigned the drive letter D:, then you will need to do a little bit of shuffling, i.e. change the drive letter from D: to such as F: or higher (depends on what is free), then change the drive letter that the Seagate 2TB sata drive has been assigned to the now free D: letter, then reassign any other drive letters as needed.

Ideally, when cloning a drive, it is best not to do this from within Windows, especially when cloning an OS drive.  
Always make a full disk backup of the source drive before attempting to clone that drive - this is your safety net in case of any problems!
Remove the source drive and replace this by the new target drive for the clone, using the same SATA cable & port - to keep the cable assignments the same and let the computer see the new drive in the same place as the old one.
Never boot the system with two identical (cloned) drives if these are OS drives with identical disk signatures.

Got same error I was getting before when trying to rename it.  I can't cut and past image now as it can't see the Directory to save a clip.

It shows "The Parameter is incorrect"  I tried to change it other letters as well as the desired D.  None will take.  I saw a lot of comments about something called Page File which is showing now on the F drive in disk management.  I shows "Page File Primary Partition"

 

James, sorry, I missed that you had both the pagefile and active flags set for your drive F: disk from the earlier screen image.

To remove the pagefile settings, right-click on This PC > Properties > Advanced (System Properties) > Performance Options > Virtual Memory as shown in my screen shot attachment - then disable drive F: from being used for pagefile data.

For the active flag, not sure that you can change this from such as Disk Management, I would normally use a free Partition Manager tool such as MiniTool Partition Wizard, or Easeus or AOMEI Partition Manager to do that.  

You may need to restart the computer after removing the pagefile flag for that drive.

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Good.  Thanks so much.  I went back and changed the D drive to original pagefile setting.  Assuming it is important or something, eh?

Final question Steve.  Is it safe to remount that original disk into the desktop.  I am not at all certain the disk was failing and just was cautious from the Wiindows Rapid warning.  But, many comments suggest the warning is often not valid.  Wondering about making it a third backup disk  and it it eventually fails, well, it then fails??

Your thoughts appreciated.

 

James, you should be fine to reinstall the original drive and use this as additional data storage / backup, but I would recommend running a full CHKDSK /R against this drive to verify that there are no obvious filesystem or sector problems with the drive.  You should also check on the disk manufacturers support site for any drive diagnostic utilities that are available, i.e. Seagate provide Seatools etc, as such tools will be designed for the specific drive.