EIDE, SCSI & Boot Partition Questions...

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Hi;

I just installed 4 SCSI drives in my Win2k AS machine. It also has two EIDE
drives. I then re-installed the O/S and got the drives pretty much in the
order I like as well as the drive letters.

I'm having one problem though. The system boots off of a SCSI disk but the
stinkin' EIDE disk contains the boot.ini file - and even worse - it was
formatted as FAT32.

I really would prefer that the first SCSI drive has the boot partition as
well as the O/S. As it stands now I can't change the drive letter of the
EIDE drive because Win2K won't let me - probably because it has the boot
partition installed on it.

Is there anyway I can make the first SCSI drive the boot drive as well as
the O/S?

Thanks;
Marvin

 

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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:14:26 -0700, "Marvin Miller" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi;
>
>I just installed 4 SCSI drives in my Win2k AS machine. It also has two EIDE
>drives. I then re-installed the O/S and got the drives pretty much in the
>order I like as well as the drive letters.
>
>I'm having one problem though. The system boots off of a SCSI disk but the
>stinkin' EIDE disk contains the boot.ini file - and even worse - it was
>formatted as FAT32.
>
>I really would prefer that the first SCSI drive has the boot partition as
>well as the O/S. As it stands now I can't change the drive letter of the
>EIDE drive because Win2K won't let me - probably because it has the boot
>partition installed on it.
>
>Is there anyway I can make the first SCSI drive the boot drive as well as
>the O/S?
>
>Thanks;
>Marvin
>

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