How to reassign systemroot / boot drive to a new hard disk partition? 1

[apwood]

Win 2000 Pro: I have a failing hard drive, so have installed a new one, and am proceeding to copy the existing partitions onto the new hard drive, then changing the drive letter on the new hard drive so it is the same as the old one. I have copied an image of the partition which contains WINNT to the new drive partition, but %SystemRoot% is still pointing to the old drive partition, and in "Disk Management" the old drive partition is referred to as the 'boot' partition. In fact, the Active partition is now on the new drive, and that is set-up to dual boot Win98 / Win 2000. If I remove the old drive (since everything is now copied across), I get the boot menu,
but Win 2000 will not boot, presumably because the 'boot' drive is now missing.

How can I reassign SystemRoot and / or the 'Boot' drive to the correct partition on the new drive?

I have tried putting the path to WINNT on the new partition in boot.ini, (using the drive letter) but that doesn't help. (By the way, could someone also explain the paths in boot.ini - what does multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(3)\ mean?)

 

[dball63]

multi = IDE or SCSI bios enabled
SCSI = SCSI bios not enabled
disk = Disk id, 0-6 for SCSI, always 0 for IDE
rdisk = multi boot options, always 0 for SCSI
partition = partition that has boot files, starts at 1

Hope this helps some

 

[apwood]

Thanks, I've also discovered that by installing the recovery console, I can use the command "map arc" to get a list of all drive letters and their full description as per boot.ini.