boot drive

[Michael]

Hi
I have just reinstalled win xp on a system infected with viruses. To make
sure the virus was all gone I deleted the C partition and recreated during
that part of the install (having put all drivers on a D drive partition.

What has happened is that it has made C drive the boot drive but D drive the
system drive, meaning that boot.ini and the loader are on D drive. This has
not happened before when I have done this. What happens is that starting up
(the dos part) is reaaalllllyyyy slow, but the system is fine was fully up.
Any way of making C drive the boot and system partition and speeding things
up without reinstallation (as I have already activated)

Thanks
Michael

 

[Dave Patrick]

What happened is you deleted the system partition (first primary active
partition) then when you started the new install windows marked the only
existing partition as active hence it became the system partition. So you'll
need to reinstall but marking C:\ as the active partition ahead of time. You
can do this easily with a win98 startup disk using fdisk to mark the correct
partition as active.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Hi
| I have just reinstalled win xp on a system infected with viruses. To make
| sure the virus was all gone I deleted the C partition and recreated during
| that part of the install (having put all drivers on a D drive partition.
|
| What has happened is that it has made C drive the boot drive but D drive
the
| system drive, meaning that boot.ini and the loader are on D drive. This
has
| not happened before when I have done this. What happens is that starting
up
| (the dos part) is reaaalllllyyyy slow, but the system is fine was fully
up.
| Any way of making C drive the boot and system partition and speeding
things
| up without reinstallation (as I have already activated)
|
| Thanks
| Michael
|
|