Location of the boot files

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1.) Since you deleted the system partition and when you started the new
install Windows marked the only existing partition as active hence it became
the system partition.

2.) Create the partition by some means then boot your win98 startup disk,
run fdisk and mark the correct partition as active.

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"Oodini" wrote:
| Hello,
|
| My hard disk contains 2 partitions: system and data.
| The last time I reinstalled Windows 2000, I deleted the system
| partition, and durint the Windows 2000 installation, I created a new
| one, at the same "location".
|
| The problem is when I do that, Windows put the boot files on the data
| aprtition, and install Windows on the other one...
|
| So how to avoid this phenomenon, so that Windows setup put the boot
| fileson the new partition (system) ?
|
| Thansk, and sorry for my english.

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Dave Patrick a écrit :
> 1.) Since you deleted the system partition and when you started the new
> install Windows marked the only existing partition as active hence it became
> the system partition.

That's what I thought...

> 2.) Create the partition by some means then boot your win98 startup disk,
> run fdisk and mark the correct partition as active.

Is there an utility to do that, but which "understand" the NTFS partitions ?

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A win98 startup disk and fdisk will work fine as it doesn't need to read the
file system.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Oodini" wrote:
| That's what I thought...
|
| > 2.) Create the partition by some means then boot your win98 startup
disk,
| > run fdisk and mark the correct partition as active.
|
| Is there an utility to do that, but which "understand" the NTFS partitions
?