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Installing Windows 2000 Drive Letters

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Timothy

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Jul 21, 2004, 10:29:49 AM7/21/04
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Hello,

I am trying to install Windows 2000 Server, the hard disk is at the
moment blank and unused. This server is going to be a terminal
services server and because of this I need Windows installed on the M
drive, ie M:\Winnt. I do not want to have any other drives like C:.
Going through setup I can not assign the drive letter M and Windows
default is the C: drive. How is this done Please can anyone advise me?
Thanks in advance.

Timothy.

Mike Walsh

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Jul 23, 2004, 12:49:34 PM7/23/04
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You can do this with WinNT but not as far as i know with Win2k or WinXP. This is Microsoft's idea of progress.

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Andrew Camfield

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Jul 24, 2004, 3:18:37 PM7/24/04
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tpat...@equity.co.uk (Timothy) wrote in message news:<42c306ab.0407...@posting.google.com>...

Tim,

I think windows always expects to be on the first partion of
the primary drive. So, since it's still based on DOS, that
has to be C:\. If I remember my old DOS batch file
programming, there was a way to alias a drive letter, but I
don't know if that would help. I'll look into it.

Later,

Andy C.(never #)

Mike Walsh

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Jul 25, 2004, 8:37:20 AM7/25/04
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Any version of windows can be on any drive, although there are some restrictions on the boot partition. With some versions you can boot from any active primary partition and load windows from any partition. Versions that load DOS before loading windows e.g. Win3.x and Win9.x get there drive letter assignment from the BIOS so the first primary partition of the first drive will be drive C. WinNT based OSs do not use DOS and do not have this restriction. WinNT can assign any drive letter to any drive, including the boot partition and OS partition. Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has not included this feature in Win2k and WinXP.

Andrew Camfield wrote:
>
> I think windows always expects to be on the first partion of
> the primary drive. So, since it's still based on DOS, that
> has to be C:\. If I remember my old DOS batch file
> programming, there was a way to alias a drive letter, but I
> don't know if that would help. I'll look into it.
>
> Later,
>
> Andy C.(never #)

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Ram

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Jul 25, 2004, 12:03:45 PM7/25/04
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acam...@revenue.org (Andrew Camfield) wrote in message news:<e0fdbe.040724...@posting.google.com>...

U Happen to have a Zip Drive or any other external drive Also unplug
any other drives except for one drive for the installation and remove
the expansion cards as well just as a precaution happened once to me
Sounds Dumb but works

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