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I have 3 drives in my PC and a CD/RW

I have Windows ME on my C: Drive (Primary IDE Master)
Nothing on my D: drive (Primary IDE Slave)
CD RW as my G: drive (Secondary IDE Master)
Windows XP Home on my E: drive (Secondary IDE Slave)

I want to delete ME from my system and then move my Windows XP drive from
Secondary Slave, to Primary Master.

I think I have to change the settings in my BOOT.INI before I make this
change or I will have issues trying to access my NTFS drive from floppies?

The BOOT.INI looks like this at the moment, and it currently sits on the C:
drive.

[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP" /fastdetect
C:\="Windows ME"

What should the above be changed to when I have only XP on my system, and
the XP drive is primary master?

Will I also have to copy boot.ini onto the XP drive root instead of my ME
drive root?

Many thanks for your help,

Si.
 
After you change the drives, you will have to perform a repair install by
booting from the Windows XP CD. This will repair all the pointers in the
registry that now say the system is installed on drive E: and change them to
indicate drive C:, the new relative position of the operating system.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
I just tried this on my system which had WIn98 on C (primary HD) and
WinXP on I (secondary HD). After problems not being able to access
CD-ROM drives and having to put I386 on HD, I now have a system where
most of the pointers in the registry are STILL pointing to I:\, causing
most things to not run!
How do I get the registry pointers corrected? Regedit and RegEdt32 do
not have a Replace function, and it will take hours to try to manually
find and modify all the pointers! Any suggestions?
 
If you have, say, Office, installed on I:, you will have to reinstall it on
drive C:.

Everything you want to be on C, has to be reinstalled on drive c:

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
Then obviously Repair or update install is worthless if the drive letter
changes, since you have to reinstall every application! Far simpler to
reformat and install from scratch!
 
Absolutely! Repairing a defective install (including one that went other
than where you desired it to go) is more trouble than it's worth.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
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