Need some windows 2k boot advice

[Soybomb]

I seem to have become more familiar with *nix than windows and wanted to check something out! One of my workstations has freebsd, 98, and 2k on it. I use the 2k boot manager to determine if I load 2k or 98. When I'm running 2k the 98 partition appears as C: and has the boot.ini ntldr etc files on it. The 2k partition is labeled as e: I haven't used 98 in like years now so I'd like to reclaim that 10 or so gigs and just boot between freebsd and 2k.

So lets say I move the nt bootloader to e: and blow away the c: partition and then use partition magic to resize e: to fill that space. I'm guessing that on the next boot e: will become c: and windows will freak out completely because of it. Sound like a reasonable guess or am I way off base? I figure I might as well just plan for a reinstall at the moment.

Stupid drive letters

 

[DaiShan]

Should run fairly smoothly, changing drive letters doesn't really matter that much, I did a similar action when installing linux on my laptop (resized the 40gb into an ntfs partition, a fat 32 partition, a linux swap partition, and a ext3 partition) no problems, and I have added and removed physical hard drives from my desktop in the past without any problems.

 

[digitalman]

partition magic comes with an app that will change all the drive letters for you after making changes (i forget the name of that though but i know it is included with v7 and v8). this is not on the floppy disc though. install PM and make the changes from inside windows. it will prob make you reboot and finish the tasks. then the app will kick in when you ge back to windows and update the registry so that drive letters will now be associated with any apps that are looking for things on the new drive letter.