Windows External Harddisk drive letter after cloning boot partition to it

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Published on 2012-07-02T03:51:10Z Indexed on 2012/07/02 9:18 UTC
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I cloned my windows 7 installation on c: to external hard drive. I applied usb patch using pwboot and i could successfully boot into windows. But My problem is even though i am booting in to external hd the file reference and system path is pointing to c: on my internal hard disk. If i remove internal hd and boot it will get stuck at login screen. Is there any way i can force drive letter c: to my boot partition on external hd while booting from it.

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