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Win98SE Drive Letter's Messed Up w/ Win2K & NTFS

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Poontos

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I have 7 partitions:

C: 1GB (BOOT DRIVE) FAT32
D: 6GB (WIN2KPRO) NTFS
E: 4GB (WIN98SE) FAT32
F: 6GB (STUFF)
ETC.

The partitions were all FAT32 at first, so installed Win98SE on drive E:, configured it, installed APPS, etc.

Now I just installed Win2K Pro on the D: drive and had it formatted to NTFS.

Now Win98 is fubar'd cause it doesn`t see the D: drive, so I think it thinks Win98 is installed on D: instead of E:, make sense?

How do I fix this without re-installing either OS's? Can I just change the drive letter specification in Win98 to get it's brains back?


Thanks!

 
Your options:

Convert NTFS to Fat32.
Reinstall Win98se back over itself.
Shave some space at end of NTFS partition or beginning of Win98se partition (better yet if you have free space in there) and create another partition.

Do you have partition magic?
 
98 isn't "fubared". It's doing excatly what it is supposed to. 98 does not have native drivers for NTFS, so it won't see the drive without installing some third party drivers. I like the ones from winternals, but others might have varying opinions. You can't control drive letter specs in 98 to my knowledge without a third party tool.
 
Windows 98 cannot read a ntfs partition. If it can't read a file system it will adjust letters.I know in 2000 there is way of changing drive letters for hard drives but I don't think 98 can. I would say your easiest bet would be to use partition magic and convert ntfs back to fat32.

I ran into similar situation with mine. except I originally had ntfs then reinstalled 2000 and switched to fat 32. fortunately I didn't have much installed on 98 and didn't mess up many shortcuts. Actually I still don't I hardly use 98 anymore. 2000 is sooooooooooo much better. 🙂😉

 
Yah, I know it is much better, I use it 98% of the time. But, I need Win98 for games!

Can I edit Win98 files to make it work as if it was on Drive D:?
 
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