Fla_Panther
June 8th, 2004, 12:12 AM
Ok, my PC originally had a 80GB drive in it which I partitioned as C:, D:, and E: and installed W2K on. Now I've bought 2 removable bays and a couple smaller drives (two 40GB's and three 20GB's). My intention is to put XP, 2000, and 2003 Server on each of the 20's, use one of the 40's as my personal drive (all my programs & documents on it), use the other 40 as a spare/backup/mirror, and use the 80 as strict storage that can stay in the PC. (I'm prepping for certs and figure it'd be easier to just swap trays than install and re-install things over and over)
So I installed one of the 40's in a removable tray, installed W2k on it, and started copying over my personal documents. Last night I finally decided to switch over to the new drive - swapped the jumpers on the drives so that the 40 (drives H: and I:) is the master and the 80 (drives C:, D:, and E:) is the slave, set the 40 to be the default boot choice, booted up to it and started installing drivers & software, etc...
...and then I got to the point where I wondered - ok, now how do I get rid of the OS on the old drive (the 80) and just boot form the new one (the 40) when I noticed something - drive H (the 40) has a swapfile in the root, but doesn't have any of the other required files - ntldr, ntdetect, boot.ini ... It had crossed my mind that I thought the drive letters would change too, but they didn't, but it was late last night when I did this, and it didn't really sink in.
So now I'm trying to remember - what tells the comp to look to C: (on the 80) for the system files, and how do I get it to look to H: (on the 40), and more importantly, I don't think I can just copy and past those system files over to the 40, right? So do I have to take the 80 out and reinstall W2K on the new drive as a standalone and THEN reattach the 80 as the slave? Or is there something I can do to salvage this install? I also wanted the 40 to call itself C: and D:, and I will have to reinstall everything on the drive to get the programs to recognize that and work correctly anyway, right?
Any help'd be appreciated, thanks :o)
So I installed one of the 40's in a removable tray, installed W2k on it, and started copying over my personal documents. Last night I finally decided to switch over to the new drive - swapped the jumpers on the drives so that the 40 (drives H: and I:) is the master and the 80 (drives C:, D:, and E:) is the slave, set the 40 to be the default boot choice, booted up to it and started installing drivers & software, etc...
...and then I got to the point where I wondered - ok, now how do I get rid of the OS on the old drive (the 80) and just boot form the new one (the 40) when I noticed something - drive H (the 40) has a swapfile in the root, but doesn't have any of the other required files - ntldr, ntdetect, boot.ini ... It had crossed my mind that I thought the drive letters would change too, but they didn't, but it was late last night when I did this, and it didn't really sink in.
So now I'm trying to remember - what tells the comp to look to C: (on the 80) for the system files, and how do I get it to look to H: (on the 40), and more importantly, I don't think I can just copy and past those system files over to the 40, right? So do I have to take the 80 out and reinstall W2K on the new drive as a standalone and THEN reattach the 80 as the slave? Or is there something I can do to salvage this install? I also wanted the 40 to call itself C: and D:, and I will have to reinstall everything on the drive to get the programs to recognize that and work correctly anyway, right?
Any help'd be appreciated, thanks :o)