Q: Last night I installed under C: winnt. I have win98 installed my dumbass decided to update to 98SE so well last night and now I have a big problem, but thats another story.
When I boot into Win2k Pro turns the C: and D:. My c is a large partition on my new IBM disk and d is one of the two on a little older Samsung drive. For some reason 2k Pro dc call and call cd.
How can I fix it without rebooting everything. I can eventually eradicate the drive anyway and the elimination of 98, but I would wait until my CD burner from CompUSA gets here so I can back up. I have a ton of programs without a lot of discs and store pictures.
So far Im loving Win2K Pro
Thanks
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Re:The answer is that you probably won't be able to fix it without reinstalling. I would just deal with it until you get your burner and then I would backup and reload. This switching was sometimes the result of your second partition being marked 'active' However, win2k isn't as forgiving as NT and you probably won't be able to change the drive letters..
Good luck
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Re:Well then Im kinda out of ideas.
How big is that "one big partition"? I'm thinking OS limits for the boot drive here, I think w2k has a 8GB limit, need to check though.
In the disk manager it doesent say "boot" on one drive and "system" on the other does it?
No "ntldr", "boot.ini" and "ntdetect.com" in the root of the old HD?
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Re:It won't let you change the drive letter of your system/boot disk.
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Re:I second Jema suggestion, to change drive letter.
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Re:So Win2K automatically creates a drive letter?
There are no extra drive letters It's just that when 2000 is loaded c & d are switched. When I go back to 98SE, which is having major problems, c and d are right. Win2000 is listing all my files under c as being under d and vice-versa.
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Re:From the Win2K side of things, you cannot reletter the boot drive (probably what it thinks is C:) and wherever \WINNT is (possible C: as well).
Any partitions created DURING the Win2K install will be lettered AFTER all the existing partitions are lettered. Let's say you already have C:, D:, and E: in Win98, but you left space between C: and D: for Win2K. If you partition that free space during the Win2K install, it be known as F: (even though it is between C: and D:). Again, you won't be able to change it from F: as the \WINNT directory will be on it.
-SUO, ended up reinstalling Win2K it get my letters right (over a year ago tho, hehe)
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Re:I installed it last night under C:\winnt
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Re:What drive did you install w2k on? I'm not quite with you but you can do quite a range of things with discs using the disk managment tools. Found in start->admin tools->comp managment.
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