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Way to control drive letters on W2K install?

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cpaynter

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Oct 25, 2002
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I'm trying to set up a test machine with multiple OS's to test our program in diverse environments. I'm using XOSL to control the booting process. Whichever partition is booted, I want that partition to be drive C:. This works fine with one drive; before I install the OS into a new partition, I simply hide the other partitions on the drive, so it sees the visible partition as C: and installs correctly. Thing is, I've got multiple drives in the system to accomodate more than 3 OS's. The problem enters when I try to install Windows 2000 on the second hard drive. If I hide all of the partitions on the first drive, then Windows 2000 fails to install, because it wants to write boot info to the primary drive. Yet if I unhide one of the partitions on the primary drive, then W2K install insists on calling that partition C: and my new partition D: and installing onto D:. Is there a way of forcing W2K install to name the partition into which it is installing C:?

Any help most appreciated. Thanks.

Chris.
 
just disconnect the first drive when installing 2k on the second
 
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