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XP's boot.ini MUST be on C: ????

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DaveR

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It appears that the boot.ini that XP installs MUST be on C:.

I have win98se installed on C:. I disconnected the drive, put in a new C: drive, fdisked and formatted it. I installed XP, and all was OK.

When I connect the original C: drive with win98se and make the XP drive d:, of course XP will no longer boot.

No problem...there are boot managers like Arconis.

It seems as though this will NOT work. It seems that the boot.ini MUST be on C:, and even if you move files there, XP will look for stuff on the C: drive it thinks it was installed on.

Is there any way I can make my XP, installed as C: work again without reinstalling XP on D: with my old win98 on C:?

 


<< is your XP OS on fat32 or NTFS?? >>




What is FAT32??
😀


Just being a smart a$$ 😀, it is FAT32. Actually, since it was formatted that way, XP does not even ask if I want to change it to ntfs...or maybe I just missed it. I guess XP could be on c: as ntfs, with the old drive on D. Then if I boot to D win98 will not see c:...is that what you are getting at?

I was keeping fat32 as I am not sure all of the utils I have support ntfs.

 
It doesn't have to be on C: (one of my machines has it on E:, the other on D🙂, but you can't change the drive letter of the system partition after you've installed.

For example, on one of my machines I had XP Professional on C:, but needed a server machine, so I pop in the .NET server CD and install it to a newly reformatted E: drive. I have subsequently removed the other drive, so I don't even have a C: drive on my machine and all is well.

Good luck
 
Thanks aviris...

I thought boot managers like Acronis would work but it will not. I may just make XP D: and keep some portion of win98se on C: anyway. I can use this to help move data anyway.
 
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