win2000 reinstall

[ytay]

but if i do that dont i have to adjust jumper settings on the hard drives

[BBA]

Ok...some basics about NT:

You can install Win2K/NT4 to any partition/drive you want, but It will always set it's boot files/system files on the IDE0 drive ( which will always be the "C:" drive ).

It will overwrite the MBR when this is done.

Now, to recover, all that is needed is to get a Win98 boot disk, copy the files "SYS.COM" and FDISK.EXE" to it.

Boot from the floppy and type "SYS c:"
and press enter. When the system is transferred, change over to the "c:" drive and type FDISK /MBR.

Now when you reboot...NT will be gone and Win98 will run as normal.

As far as installing one OS to one drive then another on another drive, you will have to physically disconnect the one drive with 98 on it during the NT install to the second drive. Then, to get it to boot to NT you will have to use some 3rd party boot management app.



[This message has been edited by BBA (edited 01-08-2000).]

[ytay]

i have two hard drives one with win98 and the secondary one is win2000, which was a clean install......i want to reinstall win2000 without doing a clean install cause it wipes all your current info out......the problem is it also want to put it on c , which i want to leave as win 98.....how do i reinstall on d: without bothering c: ....if this is possible....also without renaming the drives...........thanks, Dave

[PacDemon]

Take your drives out and put drive D where C was and have at it. Once it's completed, go ahead and put the drives back the way they were.

Are you using some kind of bootloader?