Added second Hard disk Studio 17 need help

Hello all,
My Studio originally had a Toshiba, 5400 rpm 250 gb drive in it.

I bought a Western Digital 7200 rpm 360 gb drive to add to my laptop.
I also got the carrier assembly from Dell and I installed the Western Digital into the Studio 17 in drive bay 1 , and put the Toshiba into Drive bay 2.

I had made an image of my C drive with Vista on it, and after installing the new hard drive I put the image onto the Western Digital drive, and all seemed to be well, I booted up and get into Vista, but now I see the C: local hard drive shows exactly what I had before, and Vista is showing my new drive as Drive F: but it also has all my files on it exactly as the original C image that I made.

So now Im confused, how do I know if Vista is booting from drive C: or drive F: which is my new one?

I would like to have the Western Digital as my main drive since its faster, and the Toshiba as my second hard drive for storage etc.

Do I need to format the Western Digital, and start over ? Im not sure just how or why Vista is showing it as drive F: and not C:

My Vista Device manager shows C: as the Toshiba (old drive) and the new Western Digital as drive F:

Any help on this would be apprecited, Im computer savvy and can do these things but have not done any hard drive work in several years and things have changed a little.

Thanks in advance,

Nicholas,

 

Remove the Toshiba and just boot with the new WD drive in it. You can then play around with the drive lettering if it insists that the WD be called F, so that it is C. Then install the old drive and format it.

 

Try ACRONIS

 

First, you can look at the BIOS to find out what drive is the
boot device. HDD0 (or something that resembles this) should
be set as the first boot device and this is the hard drive
Vista should boot from.

Next, once you boot into Vista, you can run a program to determine
what the order of the drives are --

Go into Control Panel, open Administrator Tools, open Computer
Management, and on the left pane under STORAGE will be
Disk Management. Click on Disk Management and should show you
the LOGICAL drives. Drive 0 should be the boot drive and it should be
drive C:. From there you should be able to tell what the other drives
are. You can even change drive letters in here for the other drives if you
like.

 

Thankyou for the replies, I took out the Toshiba, and tried just putting my image onto the Western Digital but that didnt work, when I tried to boot up it told me it detected hardware changes, and also there was a file missing or corrupt in Vista. So I had to put the Toshiba back in and it booted up fine.

Then I used Partition manager to try to copy my Toshiba drive to the Western Digital, and after the copy was finished it tells me "missing operating system" when it boots, however, it gives me the option of booting to the " second internal hard disk" which of course it the Toshiba.

Now I have Drive 0 which is the new Western Digital, and its empty and formatted, and Im booting off of my old Toshiba, which is Drive 1, and I might just forget trying to restore the image, and do a clean new install onto the WD hard drive.

I was hoping not to have to do a clean install because all my stuff is on the Toshiba and it would be a pain in the butt to have to keep installing my programs all afternoon, but that may by my only option.

Thanks for all your help , its greatly apprecitaed...

Nicholas,

UPDATE:

After much frustration and several tries at cloning the Toshiba and moving the partition with the OS onto the new Western Digital I just said its not worth the trouble. I did a fresh clean install onto the new drive, and everything is working great now. The new WD drive is so much faster than the Toshiba and it should be its 7200 rpm and it runs as cool as a cucumber. So the end result is I have a lot of room with 2 drives now, and Im happy.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions and solutions, I appreciate all of the help....

Nicholas,