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Partitioning - Drive Letter Changes
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I have a client that is running a Win98 P2P server, and the C: drive was running out of disk space. The client purchased a new 40 gig HDD, and I partitioned/formatted/inst
-Hedgie67
I have a client that is running a Win98 P2P server, and the C: drive was running out of disk space. The client purchased a new 40 gig HDD, and I partitioned/formatted/inst
-Hedgie67
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223188
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look into some type of partitioning software such as Partition Magic.
and/or
look into some type of partitioning software such as Partition Magic.
This is just a note...not a solution or answer of any type...
At the time the primary partition may have only supported 2GB or they may have installed a new hard drive and "Ghosted" the old drive onto it. The old drive may have only been 2GB...hard to imagine...but I remember 5 MB drives and even 5 1/4 inch floppy "arrays" for the TI 99/4a.
Anyway, I had a 540MB drive and upgraded my system to a 2GB Western Digital (had to use EZ BIOS at the time). I had a C and D drive on the 540MB drive. I used ghost to ghost the new drive and it worked. Partition Magic was a great help to re-partition the drive. At the time I think I had to back the info off of D: before I could repartition. That was 11 years ago or so, if memory serves me correctly.
I, of course, had a backup of the drive...I had an external 2GB Backpack drive that connected through the printer port.
Those were the days....*sniff*
Bob
At the time the primary partition may have only supported 2GB or they may have installed a new hard drive and "Ghosted" the old drive onto it. The old drive may have only been 2GB...hard to imagine...but I remember 5 MB drives and even 5 1/4 inch floppy "arrays" for the TI 99/4a.
Anyway, I had a 540MB drive and upgraded my system to a 2GB Western Digital (had to use EZ BIOS at the time). I had a C and D drive on the 540MB drive. I used ghost to ghost the new drive and it worked. Partition Magic was a great help to re-partition the drive. At the time I think I had to back the info off of D: before I could repartition. That was 11 years ago or so, if memory serves me correctly.
I, of course, had a backup of the drive...I had an external 2GB Backpack drive that connected through the printer port.
Those were the days....*sniff*
Bob
If I'm not mistaken you could remove the CD-ROM drive from the system, Partition and format the hard drive for drive letters C: and D: for primary drive and E: for secondary. Check the bios and make sure there is no auto settings for drive letter assignments and if it does have something like that make sure its set to manual. Reinstall your CD-ROM drive and it should become the F: drive.
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All,
I have a full backup of the system, and have suggested to the client that we perform a clean install of Win2K pro. What would be my best option to create C: and D: on the same drive then? During the install if I re-partioned IDE 0 master into 1 primary and 1 extended partition, would the extended be given the D: drive letter? and would it automatically allocate a different drive letter to the extended partition on IDE 0 slave as well? Please explain my options. Thanks again for all your replies.
-hedgie
I have a full backup of the system, and have suggested to the client that we perform a clean install of Win2K pro. What would be my best option to create C: and D: on the same drive then? During the install if I re-partioned IDE 0 master into 1 primary and 1 extended partition, would the extended be given the D: drive letter? and would it automatically allocate a different drive letter to the extended partition on IDE 0 slave as well? Please explain my options. Thanks again for all your replies.
-hedgie
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Rid & JayAZ,
Thanks for the help. I am going to take your advice and perform a clean install of Win2K Pro. I will create a primary system partition (C:), and install the OS. Once the OS is up and running I will use the disk mgt feature to manage the extended partitions accordingly. Due to the similarities of both your answers, I have decided to split the points. Thanks again.
-Hedgie
Thanks for the help. I am going to take your advice and perform a clean install of Win2K Pro. I will create a primary system partition (C:), and install the OS. Once the OS is up and running I will use the disk mgt feature to manage the extended partitions accordingly. Due to the similarities of both your answers, I have decided to split the points. Thanks again.
-Hedgie
I thought the win9X family was stuck with the automatic drive letter assignment system:
IDE 0 master; the primary partition is the system partition and always C:
IDE 0 slave; a primary partition will be D:
An extended partition (or the logical drive) will get the next letter, even if it's on the IDE 0 master.
For your setup I'd expect you to get C: and E: on the IDE 0 master, and D: on the IDE 0 slave
If you put the new drive as IDE 1 master the situation is the same.
Since you say you made the partition on the new drive an extended partition, this may not hold, of course.
Is the old drive set up in good old FAT? That may explain the 2 GB size of the primary partition... You'd need to make the extended partition on that drive FAT 32 to use all its space. It will be interesting to hear if you can mix FAT and FAT 32 on one drive...
Perhaps a backup and a clean rebuild is easier than doing a lot of adjustments.
/RID