drive letter assignment on reinstall

[Eckhardt Newger]

After having installed W2K Pro on C I realized that some of my tasks
could easier be done under Win98. I addtitionally installed Win98, and
it got drive letter F (at that time I had a test partition D, and E was
CD-ROM). F also got the new boot partition. OK, I know all
recommandations say to reserve the order of installation, but finally
it went that way. After some manual adjustments I managed to establish
a stable dual-boot system.

Then I installed a second W2K system (as test and backup system ) on D.
Surprisingly (to me) when I now boot into this W2K system the drive
letter assignments are different from the main W2K system: Win98
appears as C, CD-ROM as D, the main W2K system as E and W2K system
sees itself with drive letter F.

By the time, the main W2K system got more and more crippled, and I
decided that it should be reinstalled from scratch. My question now is:
How can I assure that the reinstalled main W2K system will get exactly
the same drive letter assignments as the backup system, i. e. sees
itself as E, the backup system as F, Win98 as C (and CD-ROM as D)?

Many thanks for any help.

Eckhardt Newger

 

[Andy]

The simple answer could be to install it in the same manner as the
backup system.
In order to get a good answer you need to provide details on how your
drives are organized. For example,
Primary IDE port:
Master: Hard Drive 1
Hard Drive 1: Primary partition: Windows 98 (FAT32)
First logical drive in extended partition:
Backup W2K (NTFS)
2nd logical drive in extended partition: Main
W2K (NTFS)
Slave: nothing
Secondary IDE port:
Master: CD-ROM
Slave: nothing