ide drive letters

[GHORG]

i have a comp with 2 hdds and one cdrom

the hdds are a win2k one and a win98 one

the win98 one is C:
the cdrom is d:
and the win2k one is e:

i dont want that, it pisses me off

dos seems to assign drive letters by ide order, ie primay master will get C: and secondary master will get d: and cdroms get whatever they get after u run the drivers

but win2k decides (i think) that it'll use the order the partitions were made in, which is why i get ****en win2k hdd set to e:

i dont ****en want that i want the win2k one to be c:

call me a fussy ***** but is there anyway i can change the drive letters?

cos otherwise i AM going to ****en reinstall win98 and win2k just cos i want the win2k hdd to be c:

i forget how ****en win98 does it

ok its not asking to boot up win98 anymore so **** it, goodbye OS's hello reinstallation

[Darth Evad]

You can try to take the HDD's out of your comp and switch them.
Other than that you'll have to re-install 2K.

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It was in Bobcaygeon, when I saw the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time.

[dalf]

Your primary master drive will be C Your primary slave will be D.

Change the Win2K drive to primary master to boot from that drive.
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"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives pricisely when he means to!" --Gandalf

[This message has been edited by Gandalf1120 (edited December 09, 2002).]

[Aglar]

WinNT had a disk administrator where you could change that. I could have sworn 2K did.

[Cool Matty]

Heres what your looknig for, at least in Win2k:

You'll need admin privledges.
Go to control panel. Go to administative tools. Go to Computer management.

In computer management, in the left pane, find Storage. Click the +, and click disk management.

To change a drives letter, right click on the letter, click change drive letter, and follow the instructions.

[KOP_AoEJedi]

dont have a ****en cow. Just listen to aglar, maybe you could goto a search engine and search for a "Disk Administrator"

[Aglar]

Just do what Cool Matty said.

[KOP_AoEJedi]

See! do as he says!

[GHORG]

yeah do what cool matty said


oh wait... yeah i'll try that, darth evad, pulling out drives and putting them back in only temporarily assigns the other drive to a higher number

yes the win2k drive is the primary master, but its still E:

one interesting thing i found out, win98 installation will crash when it tries to start up if c: is partitioned but not formatted....(there was another fat32 formatted drive it could have used but no...)

anyway, i'll do what cool matty said.

there is one last thing though...... dual boot win2k/win98, win98 has to be installed first, if its installed 2nd, it overrides the win2k boot sectors and goodbye dual booting

what do i do if win98(being the dodgy ******* it is) needs to be reinstalled?(as frequently happens, i can remember my win98 serial off by heart.....)

[Is_907]

first of all stop using foul language... generally speaking it turns people away from helping you.
secondly, why in the world do you want to dualboot 98 and 2k? 2k with the service packs is beautiful and runs any program you want it to and is much more stable than 98.

[dalf]

I agree. Dump 98. All 9x/ME should be wiped clean from everyone's HD.

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"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives pricisely when he means to!" --Gandalf

[GHORG]

yeah, its just im still learning how win2k works, and although i haven't tried yet, im not sure what its voodoo2 support is like