DUAL BOOT WIN 200 WIN 98 and wierd drive letters

13 Aug 2005 10:25 PM

DAMSEL IN DISTRESS

Please bear with me - I partitioned a 17gb hard drive 12gb (C DRIVE) on one
partition and 5 on the other (D DRIVE). I installed WIN98 to the smaller
drive abd WIN 2000 to the larger, everything was working great until I
started adding mu components bacl in ( my other 2 physical drives and my
CDROM)

As i added them back in, my D DRIVE was pushed back to E drive and now WIN
98 won't start, because of course the files are on d:\xxx, not e:\xxx. Is
there a way, during boot startup to lock these drive letters? I found a way
to do it once you are in WIJN 2000, but that's no help. my email adress is
s**@gra.midco.net. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED

13 Aug 2005 11:07 PM

Dave Patrick

You probably installed win9x to a logical drive on an extended partition and
then added drives that contain primary partitions. You might be able to do
something in config.sys but that all has long since escaped me so ask them
about this in;

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.win3x_wfw_dos&cat=en_US_d98ac372-28e1-4619-aedd-3b0db19ef0fb&lang=en&cr=US

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q51978/

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"DAMSEL IN DISTRESS" wrote:
| Please bear with me - I partitioned a 17gb hard drive 12gb (C DRIVE) on
one
| partition and 5 on the other (D DRIVE). I installed WIN98 to the smaller
| drive abd WIN 2000 to the larger, everything was working great until I
| started adding mu components bacl in ( my other 2 physical drives and my
| CDROM)
|
| As i added them back in, my D DRIVE was pushed back to E drive and now WIN
| 98 won't start, because of course the files are on d:\xxx, not e:\xxx. Is
| there a way, during boot startup to lock these drive letters? I found a
way
| to do it once you are in WIJN 2000, but that's no help. my email adress
is
| s**@gra.midco.net. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED
|