Drive letter adjustment

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Hi,

I have a system with WinME on it. Following some
(questionable?) advice I wanted a "clean" install of WinXP
Pro. So I bought a new drive, reset the drives' jumpers so
the original drive was Slave and the new one Master. I
then booted into WinME on C: and installed XP on D:. Now I
want to make the XP drive into C:, and the old WinME drive
into D:. Not surprisingly it looks like XP will not let
me. Is there something I'm missing?

I suspect that I'll have to start over. What is the proper
way to accomplish my goal? Disconnect the old WinME drive
and boot from the WinXP CD? I don't care about ever
booting into WinME again once the XP is working, although
I would like to keep the old C: files, especially some
drivers I might need.

Also, my new 80GB drive has to be NTFS while the old 50GB
one is Fat32

TIA
Duncan
 
The mistake you made was using WinMe to launch the Install. WinXP placed
your boot files on the C: drive. Start over
but start the install from the CD. Just select your cdrom drive as first
boot device in the Bios. AND disconnect your old
drive. After you can reinstall the old drive as slave and get the files
off it.
 
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