Hard drive problems

[bredmond]

Ok, here is a weird one.

I just installed Win2K last night. My system previously had Win98SE installed, so I decided to get a new hard drive to install 2K on, with no intention of dual booting or anything.

The install went smoothly, however when I look in the file explorer I notice that the old drive had C and D assigned, and the new drive had G assigned, with my 2 CD-ROM drives taking E and F.

Now the new drive is installed as the master drive on IDE 1 with the old drive installed as the slave.

Any ideas on how to change or fix this?

One other point, the old drive, which had 2 partitions, was formatted with FAT32, while the new drive was formatted with NTFS.

I'll probably just disconnect the old drive tonight and reinstall, but I am worried that once I reconnect the old drive it will once again mess up the drive letter assignments.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Bill Redmond

[CJK]

Go into computer management and go into disk management and assign drive letters manually.

[bredmond]

CJK,
Thanks for the information. Unfortunately Win2K won't let you change the drive letter assigned to the boot device. However, that was ok as I wanted to repartition that drive anyway. I unplugged the slave drive and reinstalled on a clean drive and used what you recommended to set the drive letters as I wanted them.

Thanks again.
Bill