can't reinstall D drive

[whitebeard]

my c drive is 2000 pro, my D drive is also 2000 pro but corupted by a worm. ms says to reinstall but when I try from my D drive it automatically reboots to my C drive and reinstalls there. I tried unpluging the C but then It will not boot with either a 98 boot disk or the 2000 set. There has to be a way to do this without doing a fdisk reformat reinstall. If this was an employers system I would be in deep trouble if I had to reformat. I thought about ghost but that would still leave me with corupted files wouldn't it. C drive is disk 0 and D is disk 1
thanks wb

 

[mviltan]

what about removing the c: and then plug in the d: to the old c: slot?

 

[PeteH2]

This answer assumes that disks 0 & 1 are physical disks and are swapped as required, but not the logical volumes of one physical disk.

It does look as if it's best to Fdisk drive 1. Remove drive 0, (If an IDE drive, set drive 1 to be a master) FDISK it, boot of the w2k CD, install to drive 1. When complete, set drive 1 to slave again and insert disk 0.

HTH

Pete H

 

[wolluf]

whitebeard,

could you explain your original setup & what you are trying to achieve now please? If you had a dual boot with 2 win2k installs, one on each drive, then all the boot sector files will be on the C: drive. If you want to reinstall 2k on the second (have you wiped the drive?) and retain dual boot, probably best to start install process from the first 2k installation, and choose clean install rather than upgrade & to choose where you install. It should then let you install on D: drive. You'll probably end up with an extra entry in boot.ini - but you can edit that out easily enough. If I'm way off track with what you had/want please post back.

 

[whitebeard]

This is a setup for learning. original 13 gig as C drive disk 0, removed and replaced with 4 gig disk 0, d drive is original 60 gig,disk 1. It will boot to D with either the 4 gig or the 13 gig as the c drive. it will not boot without the c drive pluged in. both are set as master on different channels as disk 0 primary 1 and disk 1 secondary master. I have the dual boot 2000 so one can be a peer to peer lan and one can be a domain. I have to go vote now so I will try all suggestions when I get back thanks for the Quick response wb