Partitioned Hard Drive

[Guest]

I've upgraded my personal computer from ME to Windows 2000 so that I can
learn about servers. Right now, I have two IDE hard drives installed. Both
HD's are partitioned. Disk 0 is serves only as C drive, and disk 1 was
partitioned as drives D and E under ME. At present Disk 1 is showing only as
one drive, in this case as drive F (I also have a CDROM and CD-R/RW drives
installed). Is there any way that I can get the one hard drive to be listed
as two seperate drives or is this a pipe dream and will have to bite the
bullet and install a seperate drive?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I've upgraded my personal computer from ME to Windows 2000 so that I can
learn about servers. Right now, I have two IDE hard drives installed. Both
HD's are partitioned. Disk 0 is serves only as C drive, and disk 1 was
partitioned as drives D and E under ME. At present Disk 1 is showing only as
one drive, in this case as drive F (I also have a CDROM and CD-R/RW drives
installed). Is there any way that I can get the one hard drive to be listed
as two seperate drives or is this a pipe dream and will have to bite the
bullet and install a seperate drive?

You write "I've upgraded my personal computer from ME to Windows 2000".
Win2000 was actually released first, followed by WinME. You therefore
"downgraded", except that there is no upgrade/downgrade path from WinME
to Win2000. In some cases it works anyway, in other cases you can expect
some interesting problems. Also note that Win2000 is not a "server" product,
so you won't learn anything about servers.

To check out your disk partitions, start a Command Prompt, then run
diskmgmt.msc. What partitions do you see? What types?

 

[Rob Stow]

You write "I've upgraded my personal computer from ME to Windows 2000".
Win2000 was actually released first, followed by WinME. You therefore
"downgraded",

"Downgrading" or "Upgrading" has nothing to do with when those
two versions of Windows were released. W2K is a far better product
than ME therefore a move from ME to W2K is an upgrade. Period.

Heck, ME came after 98SE but even 98SE would be an upgrade relative
to garbage like ME.

 

[Dan Seur]

Amen, amen to both prior posts, but I'm not sure whether
the originator means "an upgrade to" or "a clean install of"
W2k. If the former, he ought to do a clean install to be
sure of a glitch-free OS. If the latter, he ought to be
aware that some vendors' machines, specifically designed
for ME's rather lax hardware requirements, can have trouble
meeting W2k's more stringent expectations.

But a Happy New OS to him, whichever.