Bye Bye Win98 but W2K was on a dif drive and...

[Tominator]

...what is the most reliable way to convert the W2K drive to the boot drive?

As it is now, IDE one has one drive with 2 partitions. IDE two has W2K and another part.

What is the most fool proof way to use W2K as the primary bootable drive?

 

[EagleKeeper]

Do not how fool proof it is, but why not just make the W2K drive the primary and re-install.
The re-installation ?should? detect existing settings.

Option two would be to move the W2K files to partition #2 and then re-install with the drive as the primary.
This will allow the D: drive settings built into the original W2K configuration to still be retained. You will end up only setting up the boot sector for the NTLDR

 

[Tominator]

That is along the lines I was thinking.....Thanks for the advice.

 

[minendo]

I would try this: set IDE two as primary master. Boot from DOS boot disk and type fdisk /mbr. Then remove the floppy and reboot. Win2k should automatically kick in and create a new mbr.