Drive letter problem in Win2kPro

[Turbopit]

I installed it last night under C:\winnt. I also have win98 installed which my dumbass decided to update it to 98SE last night as well and now I've got major problems with it, but that's another story.

When I boot into Win2k pro it switches c: and d:. My c is one big partition on my new IBM hard drive and d is one of two on an older small samsung drive. For some reason 2k Pro is calling d-c and calling c-d.

How can I fix this without re-doing everything. I may end up wiping out the drive anyway and getting rid of 98, but I want to wait till my cd burner from Compusa gets here so I can back up. I've got a ton of programs with no disks and a lot of store pictures.

So far I am loving Win2K Pro

Thanks

 

[jema]

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.

 

[Turbopit]

I installed it last night under C:\winnt

 

[SUOrangeman]

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)

 

[Turbopit]

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.

 

[Plantanthera]

I second Jema suggestion, to change drive letter.

 

[Turbopit]

It won't let you change the drive letter of your system/boot disk.

 

[jema]

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?

 

[soho]

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