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Oops..... chopped off portion of my post AND said "reboot" when I
meant "reinstall" on the topic line. Here is the corrected topic with the last few lines that were missing from post of few moments ago: ----->>>> Hi, Currently have a multi-boot system, with (among other OS's) 3 WinXp partitions (one on each Hard Drive), set up as follows: Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 (C) WinXp-A (2300MB) (*)WinXp-B (*)WinXp-C (J) WinXp system (50MB) Each WinXp partition is designated as "C" and am using Powerquest's BootMagic 7.0 to select one at boot-up, with the other two remaining hidden. The "J" system partition contains only a few files (boot.ini, ntloader, NTdetect, as well as the reovery console files). Actually...bootmagic is loading the system partition first, and then I have to select which Windows partition to use from the multi-boot screen. My question is this.... I would like to reverse (or change) the letters. Make the system partition the "C" partition and the Windows partitions some other letter. I have successfully changed assigned letters for the system partition (Using Partition Magic) and for many other situations without a hitch, but cannot seem to find a way to change my configuration as described. Would like to change to THIS: Disk 0 Disk 1 Disk 2 (J) WinXp-A (2300MB) (*)WinXp-B (*)WinXp-C (C) WinXp system (50MB) Is there a way to do this WITHOUT RE-INSTALL? I had given up, but when I installed XP on my daughter's PC a couple of days ago (yes...separate legitimately purchased WinXp), I was able to set up exactly as I showed above. But of course that WAS a fresh install. So...because of that, I started trying again to modify the setup on my PC, but it won't boot after I make the change. I;m actually running XP Pro, and she has XP Home, but I doubt that's a factor. Any input/suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Larry |
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