As a PC tech, I’m kind of embarrassed to post this question, but I’m clueless on this one.
I had been previously using Windows 2000 pretty much since it came out. I never upgraded to XP, since I had a sound card that didn’t have XP drivers.
Well, my sound card crapped out on me, so I bought an Audigy and a copy of XP Pro.
I have six partitions on three physical drives. My boot partition is 30GB, and is the first partition on the primary master. It’s always been C:.
However, when I booted from the XP CD to format that partition, XP identified the partition as F:!
I went ahead and installed it anyway, but ran into some post-install problems. XP refused to access one of my drives, and insisted that the filesystem was RAW, and that I could not access it. It’s actally NTFS, and Windows 2000 knows it. I have no idea why XP can’t figure that out.
Anyway, I need that drive, so I decided to reformat again, and go back to Windows 2000 until I can get that problem sorted out. When I did so, however, Windows 2000 also decided that F: was my main partition, and, like XP, it installed all of my system files onto it!
I’m thinking about going into the Disk Management console and trying to switch the drive letters, but I don’t know if that’s a viable option. I’d hate to have to install operating systems three times in one day!
Any suggestions?