relocating bootfiles from d to c/win2k)

[europanorama]

this question is not new-sorry bipolarbill- but i have still two problems.

i have a 60 gb-hdd/win2k prof with several partitions.
i wanted to have bootfiles on c and windows on d. i could manage this and could enter windows. but now when i start there is a menue, on top: win2k, then c: with not recognized system.

when win2k starts automatically(if i will not change from first to second option) it will ask for administrator pass.

i do not remember it.
what can i do.

i would like to reinstall completely, but need advice how to handle this bootfile-special.

[rraehal]

When you put in the Win2k CD do not repartition unless you want to change the layout of your drive letters.

Simply format all the partitions and set up Windows 2000 to install at D:\WINNT. Your C: drive should be the active partition allowing windows to automatically place the boot files on drive C: during setup.

[europanorama]

1. i have no access whatever i try. with, without cd- whatever repairoption. administrator pass is asked. so i cannot repair.

2. i will completely reformat with ontrack. and do what you suggested. i dont understand why i could not boot-up.maybe something went wrong because i changed from cd-first-boot-device to ide-o before i relocated bootfiles. maybe i should have changed this before first start, right?

can i boot from cd to start setup, using d: for windows? as i did before but bootfiles were not in c.

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[rraehal]

1) Due to security reasons the computer asks you to log in. If you do not know the Admin Password you can not logon as that user. If the password you know is correct does not work there is a more serious problems such as corruption of the SAM (Security Accounts Manager)

2) After you erase the drive make sure that Drive C: the first partition is Active. The setup program will place the boot files on the active partition automatically because that is the partition the BIOS looks for to boot from the drive. Changing the boot order from CD to IDE should not have affected your ability to boot. You can not manually move the boot files from one drive to another. You must use the appropriate software to do it. I have never moved my boot files in 2K or XP so I do not know how to do it without reinstalling. In DOS days you could simply use SYS to move the files. With 95 and 98 you could use SYS but then needed to change some registry values and files so the Boot files could find the windows install. The boot files are more complicated that only the files. There is alos the boot record which you can not copy from drive to drive.

You can do this from the CD. I had a 2GB FAT32 partition and 8GB NTFS partition. C: was the 2GB and D was the 8GB. I had used FDISK to create the C drive and it was active. I installed XP without anything else. The boot files were placed on C and XP installed on D in D:\Windows.

[europanorama]

1. i do not know this pass anymore. is there a solution?

2. i will now use winme-bootdisk and use fdisk to check if wrong partition is activated.

i am right? i think i cannot use the emergency disk or the other 4.

i will tell you late how i partitioned.

i did not yet use this 60gb-disk.

U P D A T E:
sorry for the confusion-i should have known. when i once tried to use partition magic with first partition set to fat(maybe this is default?) the second one was limited to 2gb...!

i have reformatted but bootpartition was fat/fat16 because it was too small-510 mb (windows 2000 specification). thats why there will be a startmenue which confused me.

i received a tip:
1. bootpartition c: must be fat 32 otherwise -with fat 16 c: will not be recognized. but i could boot-up when i used first option windows 2000 in startmenue. second one would be unrecognized system c:

i had also forgotten formatting all partitions in ntfs. i will have only w2k.

i will now reformat as follows:

c: ntfs 10 gb-win2k
d: ntfs 20 gb programs
e: ntfs data

any better idea?

i i had a second drive i would relocate swap to that place.

how big would you set swapfile? min=maximum?

is partition c too big? is 5 gb better?