longun

I've got three patitions on my machine one running ME one running 2000 P and the other 2000 Server.

I put server on first and installed it on to E drive and then ME on C Drive and 2000 P on D.

However can I format C or is that where the hole thing boots from considering I didn't put anything on C drive for quite a while and when I did windows automatically put up a menu system for me????

Cheers for any help.

InvisibleMan

go into the bios when you switch on & see what the bootup device is. Prob A,C,CDROM. If this is the case then the system files are on C: Try changing it to D or E

Ian Cook

run fdisk from a command prompt (win98 startup disk is favourite) and check which partition is active !!!

The active partition is usually the one that holds the system boot files !

If this is C: you will need to run Win2K repair after formatting the drive and it should recreate the system startup files !

longun

Thanks for the input I deleted C Drive and it booted ok but I can't change any startup options because the boot.ini file was on the C Drive. Eveerything else works fine so I think I will run repair and see if that fixs it.

Thanks.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

longun.....you spelt 'drive' wrong in the title of this thread

just thought I'd mention it like

Sal

longun

Me? spell something wrong? never