System files not on Windows drive

[Grimmett]

Hi,
I have two hard drives in my machine, 1 80 gig WD and a 34gig raptor. Im using a K8n neo platinum board and windows xp. When I recently reinstalled windows, my windows drive became drive D: and my other harddrive C:. Well it appears that all of my important system files (IO.sys, Boot.ini, MSDOS.sys etc) are on drive C: and not the windows drive D:. Can or do I need to fix this? Thanks

 

[amdskip]

I would back up all your important files and redo everything so that windows is on c. It will work how it is right now but it will just come back to be real pain eventually.

 

[imported_JFG]

Yeah, don't waste time trying to figure out something that will give you headaches in the future. Format & reload

 

[Grimmett]

Hey,
Thanks guys. I was thinking the same thing. Im so tired of reinstalling stuff
Appreciate the input

 

[lansalot]

You do NOT need to fix this, it's not a problem. Unless you remove the second drive of course. But if you're that worried, you could make an XP boot floppy instead.

I managed to find myself with an XP system once with no C: drive at all. WHo will be first to work out how that happened? No other OS involved at the end of the day - XP only.

Incidentally - io.sys and msdos.sys are not needed for XP - the ONLY files you need on your system disk are boot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr.

They don't even need to be in a magical place like 'first sector' or wherever io.sys had to be (see SYS command for more details).

If you format a floppy under XP, and simply copy the 3 files above on it - you will be able to boot your OS off the hard disk. Worth remembering in a pinch if those files get stuffed.

 

[Grimmett]

Thanks for the info man, but Ive already formatted. I will keep this handy in case it happens again, just as a reminder. Thank you again