RE: Installing Windows SErver 2003

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Hello Renard,
It sounds like you booted from the Windows Server 2003 CD or you booted
from a floppy disk and ran Winnt.exe.
Then you deleted the C drive during setup and created a new partition.
When you boot the cd we enumerate the existing partitions and assign them
drive letters.
So if you delete a partition during setup, that drive letter is already
allocated or if you delete a partition prior to setup so the space is seen
as raw, it isn't assigned a drive letter.
When you create the new partition it is given the next available drive
letter to be allocated, we don't re-enumerate the drives again after
deleting and recreating partitions.
If you booted to a MS-DOS disk the Fat32 partition would be the only one
that would be seen, so it would be assigned to C:.
If you boot to the cd and install to the NTFS partition now it should
assign as the C Drive. You can format the partition without changing the
drive letter, but if you re-partition, the drive lettering will be
different.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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>Reply-To: "Renard Iannettone" <Renard.Iannettone@xxxxxxxxx>
>From: "Renard Iannettone" <Renard.Iannettone@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Installing Windows SErver 2003
>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:35:47 -0500
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>I have (that is HAD)a server with two partitions. A NTFS C:\drive and a
>FAT32 D:\ Drive. Windows 2003 installed on the C:\ drive and I used the
>d:\drive to store Ghost images.
>
>I wanted to install Windows 2003 Enterprise again. I followed the install
>and cleaned out the C:\ partition. I thought everything was okay (the
>installer never mentioned anything about a different partition. When all
>was said and done the 2003 server was installed on an E:\ partition and the
>ghost images were moved to a FAT32 C:\ partition
>
>Any idea why and how this transformation took place?
>
> thanks
>
> Renard
>
>
>

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