I'd always had xp installed on the first partition of my sata drive and put my linux distros on my ide drive. After xp crashed the other day I decided to put all the os's on the (much bigger) ide drive.
So I formated the sata as fat32 so I could access files from xp/linux and set up the ide drive with a big ntfs partition at the start, a couple of ext3's for my main linux distro, a fat32 for storage (I like having my critical pictures/docs stored in multiple places), then a bunch more ext3's for trying out other linux distros.
Well I installed xp last night. Told it to install in the the big ntfs partition on the ide drive. After the install was done and I started setting up the smaller stuff I realized something looked weird. Windows had decided to make the small fat32 partition on the ide drive the C: and it's referred to as 'system' in disk management. The sata drive that is all one big fat32 is called D:. And, the ntfs partition where I told xp to install itself is called N:, referred to as 'bootable' in disk management.
What happened to cause this? Everything works fine, although when I boot into windows there is a screen asking me if I want to start windows xp or 'unidentified operating system on drive c:'
I could just leave it, like I said it seems to work ok. When I install something it goes to install it in 'N:' But I'm kind of worried about something screwing up in future. It's just after the initial install and antivirus stuff so I haven't spent time installing the big apps and games. I could just unplug the sata, reformat the fat32 on the ide as something else and then reinstall xp to the ntfs partition and everything would have to go there and it would have to be drive C: Right? Is it worth the hassle? Or will this setup stay stable for the future?
So I formated the sata as fat32 so I could access files from xp/linux and set up the ide drive with a big ntfs partition at the start, a couple of ext3's for my main linux distro, a fat32 for storage (I like having my critical pictures/docs stored in multiple places), then a bunch more ext3's for trying out other linux distros.
Well I installed xp last night. Told it to install in the the big ntfs partition on the ide drive. After the install was done and I started setting up the smaller stuff I realized something looked weird. Windows had decided to make the small fat32 partition on the ide drive the C: and it's referred to as 'system' in disk management. The sata drive that is all one big fat32 is called D:. And, the ntfs partition where I told xp to install itself is called N:, referred to as 'bootable' in disk management.
What happened to cause this? Everything works fine, although when I boot into windows there is a screen asking me if I want to start windows xp or 'unidentified operating system on drive c:'
I could just leave it, like I said it seems to work ok. When I install something it goes to install it in 'N:' But I'm kind of worried about something screwing up in future. It's just after the initial install and antivirus stuff so I haven't spent time installing the big apps and games. I could just unplug the sata, reformat the fat32 on the ide as something else and then reinstall xp to the ntfs partition and everything would have to go there and it would have to be drive C: Right? Is it worth the hassle? Or will this setup stay stable for the future?
