which C: drive

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I used Partition Magic to change my 2-partition drive into a
3-partition drive.
Win2000 stayed in C. Both C & D are NTFS. CDROM is E. (No changes
made.)
I formatted F as Fat32. Win2000 still boots fine.

The physical order of the partitions, according to PM: F, C, D.

Using PM, I made F the active partition (with C & D hidden.)
Rebooted with the Win98SE setup CD.
98Setup "found" NT files: I told it to leave them alone.
Now, it's asking if it should put the Win98 files into C:\windows.

I think (hope!) Setup is referring to the FAT32 partition as C:
Before I hit that RETURN button can anybody tell me if this is ok or
is the Win98 trying to put stuff on the other partitions.

Thanks very much.
 
bill said:
I used Partition Magic to change my 2-partition drive into a
3-partition drive.
Win2000 stayed in C. Both C & D are NTFS. CDROM is E. (No changes
made.)
I formatted F as Fat32. Win2000 still boots fine.

The physical order of the partitions, according to PM: F, C, D.

Using PM, I made F the active partition (with C & D hidden.)
Rebooted with the Win98SE setup CD.
98Setup "found" NT files: I told it to leave them alone.
Now, it's asking if it should put the Win98 files into C:\windows.

I think (hope!) Setup is referring to the FAT32 partition as C:
Before I hit that RETURN button can anybody tell me if this is ok or
is the Win98 trying to put stuff on the other partitions.

Thanks very much.
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Probably is seeing it as the FAT32 Drive C. To be on the safe
side, assign volume names to all of the partitions.
 
Ghostrider said:
Probably is seeing it as the FAT32 Drive C. To be on the safe
side, assign volume names to all of the partitions.
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I gave all 3 partitions names, but during Win98 setup, it only refers
to "C:" not a volume label.
Bill
 
-----Original Message-----
I used Partition Magic to change my 2-partition drive into a
3-partition drive.
Win2000 stayed in C. Both C & D are NTFS. CDROM is E. (No changes
made.)
I formatted F as Fat32. Win2000 still boots fine.

The physical order of the partitions, according to PM: F, C, D.

Using PM, I made F the active partition (with C & D hidden.)
Rebooted with the Win98SE setup CD.
98Setup "found" NT files: I told it to leave them alone.
Now, it's asking if it should put the Win98 files into C:\windows.

I think (hope!) Setup is referring to the FAT32 partition as C:
Before I hit that RETURN button can anybody tell me if this is ok or
is the Win98 trying to put stuff on the other partitions.

Thanks very much.


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it should not put win 98 files into C: because Win 2000 is
installed on that partition. when it asking where do you
want to put the win 98 files please type in the location
area like this f: and then it will install windows 98 on
f: partition.
 
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