Installed WinXP on the D:/ drive. Is that OK???

[Guest]

Hello - I have just completed a clean install of WinXP pro on the D:/ drive
of my system. I also have a C:/ drive which I formatted after installation
had completed. I have updated to SP2 and all seems fine.

My question is; am I going to run into problems by having my OS on my D:/
drive?

thank you

 

[jimbo]

Hello - I have just completed a clean install of WinXP pro on the D:/ drive
of my system. I also have a C:/ drive which I formatted after installation
had completed. I have updated to SP2 and all seems fine.

My question is; am I going to run into problems by having my OS on my D:/
drive?

thank you

Sounds like you have "D" drive set up as your system/boot drive.
Otherwise when you formatted "C" you would have lost some system files
that WinXP uses to boot, ntldr, boot.ini and ntdetect.com. You are
probably OK, but it may get confusing in the future.

Good luck, jimbo

 

[D.Currie]

Hello - I have just completed a clean install of WinXP pro on the D:/
drive
of my system. I also have a C:/ drive which I formatted after installation
had completed. I have updated to SP2 and all seems fine.

My question is; am I going to run into problems by having my OS on my D:/
drive?

thank you

Unless you're installing some odd/old/poorly written programs that don't
understand multiple drives, you should be fine. Otherwise everyone running
multiboot systems would have all sorts of problems since only one drive is
going to be C. I've got several systems where Windows is somewhere other
than C and I've never had problems.

 

[jimbo]

Unless you're installing some odd/old/poorly written programs that don't
understand multiple drives, you should be fine. Otherwise everyone running
multiboot systems would have all sorts of problems since only one drive is
going to be C. I've got several systems where Windows is somewhere other
than C and I've never had problems.

I think OPs situation is different from the typical dual boot
situation. I have dual boot systems where WinXP is on "D" and Win98 is
on "C". But in that case if I formatted "C" I would lose files
required to boot WinXP. OP didn't lose the files when he formatted "C".

jimbo

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Hello - I have just completed a clean install of WinXP pro on the D:/ drive
of my system. I also have a C:/ drive which I formatted after installation
had completed. I have updated to SP2 and all seems fine.

My question is; am I going to run into problems by having my OS on my D:/
drive?

Chris,

no, it will keep working if you don't change anything.

But I wouldn't do it. I would remove all partitions from both
drives, using fdisk from a Windows 98 boot diskette, then I
would enter the command:

fdisk /mbr

to reset the master boot record.

Then I would install Windows XP again on the primary drive, i.e.
the drive that's jumpered as master. This should now become the
C: drive.

Why would I do this? Because 99% of all computers have Windows
on the C: drive and I don't want to have any unusual
configuration unless I have a reason for it.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

I would like to thank you all for your replies. I have my BIOS configured to
boot from my D:// drive so I think it will keep working OK. I won't bother
changing things unless I run inot some major instability issues.

chris