Musical hard drives.

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Chris W

I want to rearrange hard drives and want to know if there is a way to do
it with out reinstalling. I have a machine with a 40 gig IDE with win2k
installed. I recently put a 60 gig IDE in and have also installed win
2k. The 40 gig is FAT32 and the 60 gig is NTFS. My question is this;
is there a way to take out the 40 gig and move the 60 gig so it is the
boot disk with out reinstalling anything. Win2k on the 60 gig calls the
drive H: and of course the 40 gig is C: in both installs. Also both
drive have a single partition on them. The partition on the 60 gig was
created by the win2k install process.

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Chris W

"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
 
No, you will need to reinstall windows on the 60gb since it doesn't appear
to have
windows installed on it.

this also should be in the microsoft.public.win2000.setup newsgroup, not
networking.

- lnl

I want to rearrange hard drives and want to know if there is a way to do
it with out reinstalling. I have a machine with a 40 gig IDE with win2k
installed. I recently put a 60 gig IDE in and have also installed win
2k. The 40 gig is FAT32 and the 60 gig is NTFS. My question is this;
is there a way to take out the 40 gig and move the 60 gig so it is the
boot disk with out reinstalling anything. Win2k on the 60 gig calls the
drive H: and of course the 40 gig is C: in both installs. Also both
drive have a single partition on them. The partition on the 60 gig was
created by the win2k install process.

--
Chris W

"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
 
licknlabia said:
No, you will need to reinstall windows on the 60gb since it doesn't appear
to have
windows installed on it.
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I may not have been clear but I have win2k installed on both hard drives. The
boot.ini file on the first hard drive is setup so I can boot to either
installation.
this also should be in the microsoft.public.win2000.setup newsgroup, not
networking.
Click to expand...

Oops I guess I wasn't paying attention, sorry.
 
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