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.

 

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

 

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 !

 

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.

 

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

just thought I'd mention it like

Sal

 

Me? spell something wrong? never