Muzz said:
What I did was delete partition 1, format, and
What do I have to do to get Windows to install to (C
?
First, why that happened: when you boot from the CD and Windows setup
starts, it assigns all visible partitions drive letters, in the normal order
(based on physical disk, order in partition table, and type of partition).
Deleting partitions will not cause re-assignment. If you delete your C:
partition, another partition will not automatically become C: unless you
quit setup at that point and reboot.
Second, what you can do now: If the partition you now have Windows
installed on is the partition you wanted Windows on, with only the drive
letters are backwards from what you exepcted, then my suggestion would be to
leave it alone and get used to it. There is no rule that says the system
volume must always be C:, as you already have discovered it works just fine
on other volumes, too.
The only one caveat you must remember with this is to not wipe out your C:
partition thinking it's just data. Since you can't boot Windows directly
from an extended partition, it also contains a few Windows boot loader
files. If anything happens to those, you will end up with an unbootable
system -- despite having Windows on a different partition.
If you want Windows on your present C: partition, simply run setup again,
choose to install Windows again (instead of repairing your existing
installation) and select the C: partition as the destination. Choose "Leave
the filesystem intact" when prompted. You will want to later edit your
boot.ini to get rid of the boot menu asking you to choose between the two
installations.
If you want Windows on a smaller partition, it to be C:, and also separate
from the data you have on the present C:, then you will probably have to
back up everything and repartition the drive completely.
Note that you can easily change drive letters for other volumes through the
Disk Management MMC snap-in, but doing so for the boot and system volumes is
not a good idea.
