Drive Letter Reconfiguration problem in W2K

[Niege]

I've searched AT and MS and I don't think I have a solution to my problem. Most of the references are for XP or for non-boot partitions.

The situation: In the bad old days I was running W98 and added W2K in the second partition. I have two drives on the system: C,E,F and D,G,H - I'm using the secon drive as backup for the first. W98 is on C and W2K is on E. I use W2K 99.887% of the time, except when W2K crashes.

So.... I want to add a 3rd drive, but that would mean that my E drive would now become at least F and I couldn't run W2K or any other application. Is there a way to EASILY change the drive letter on this boot partition without having to reinstall W2K and all my applications? Ideally I'd like to dump W98 and just run W2K now.

Thanks!

 

[Nothinman]

Sorry, nothing that will work well. You'd have to change the drive letter on every path in the registry and you only get 1 try unless you use something like a WinPE boot CD to change them after it breaks.

 

[AndyHui]

If you added the new drive while using Windows 2000 only, Windows 2000 will assign it a new drive letter at the end of the series. It does not follow the old regime in DOS/Win9x where Primary partitions are first and logicals next. It should not disrupt your boot sequence.