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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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Changing a partition's device name
« on: April 11, 2006, 02:13:44 PM »
Is changing a partition's device name (e.g. HD0) destructive? I have just installed a replacement hard drive and want to change the partition device names to what they were on the old drive. Can I do this without losing data? The partitions are formatted with SFS under OS3.9.

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Re: Changing a partition's device name
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2006, 03:00:50 PM »
Thanks - that's what I thought. I'm familiar with the fields in HDToolBox but didn't know if changing from QDH0 to HD0 and QDH1 to HD1 would destroy the data within the partition.

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Re: Changing a partition's device name
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2006, 03:08:11 PM »
I'll try it. If it does destroy the data then it's still on the IDE drive anyway.

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Re: Changing a partition's device name
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2006, 03:18:17 PM »
Hi mate, no not yet. The hard drive I have just installed is also SCSI, so now that is working I know the SCSI controller and SCSI chain are ok, and the problem must lie with the CDRW drive. I'm going to try a lens cleaner and see if that helps.

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