Re: Can the boot drive ever be D: drive?

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I have no idea why you want to do that, but I think you may need 3rd-party
software to do it. I **think** that Server 2003 will place the system files
(ntldr, ntdetect.com) on the first primary partition it finds.

What is your reason for moving the system files?

Gregg Hill



"Brian Muth" <bmuth@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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First of all, what do you mean by the "boot" drive?

In Microsoft terminology, the "boot" partition is the partition that
holds the files necessary for the operating system to run, i.e., the
Windows folder with the OS in it.

In Microsoft terminology, the "system" partition is the partition that
holds the files necessary to boot the system, i.e., ntldr, ntdetect.com,
etc.

You can have separate "boot" and "system" partitions (on the same or
different physical drives), or they can both be on the same partition, or
on different partitions on the same drive.

What is your precise desired result?


Thanks, Greg, for clarifying the terminology. Upon bootup, I wish the
system partition for Windows 2003 to be assigned a drive letter other than
C: Ideally, I'd like to be able to control the drive letter precisely,
such as assigning the system partition the "M:" letter, although I suspect
that may not be possible.

Brian




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