broke my postresql

[bopunto]

I recently bought a new hard drive, and was going to put postresql onto it.

So I dragged the entire postresql folder onto the new hard drive, but I couldn't get the service to start because I couldn't figure out how to edit the path from C:/... to F:/... Under properties it just wouldn't let me edit.

So I dragged the folder back onto the C drive and now when I start postresql it takes a long time (like 2 minutes) to start and then I get this error "The PostreSQL Database Server 8.2 service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance Logs and Alerts service."

When I restart the computer it just shows as "starting" indefinitely.

Please help. =[

[kraada]

The easiest thing to do is going to be to reinstall PostgreSQL as per this guide. So long as you follow its steps as written you won't damage your data at all.