Move system volume to another drive.

[barmouth]

Aftertaf's going to love this...

Installed w2k on a machine with 4 drives in Raid 0/1 and a 5th ide drive in a pullout caddy (it's the backup drive).

Whilst the Win install is correctly on one of the raid partitions (in G; out of D:E:F: and G, the ntloader etc has ended up on the ide drive (that thinks it's C, which I need to remove from time to time. Can you believe that I missed this during the mind numbing install process? Errm, well...

Any idea if this would work? Copy the sysvol files across to what ought to become C: if I start up without the ide drive connected. (Thinking being that if win has decided (correctly, oddly enough) that the order of partitions is DEFG, then removing the ide will reassign the raid partitions CDEF)

 

[aftertaf]

if it starts smoking, pull the plug and run!!

honestly, on this one i do not know...
at a guess.
recovery console with a good old fixmbr could do the job...
like i said, get ready to run!!

Aftertaf
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squiggle squiggle

 

[aftertaf]

http://www.petri.co.il/change_system_drive_letter_in_windows_xp.htm

this bit i like especially...

For the most part, this is not recommended,

Aftertaf

getting quite good at sorting out Windows problems...
An expert when it comes to crashing Linux distributions (mdk, debian - nothing withstands me)

 

[bcastner]

Redo the install, with the IDE drive disconnected.

 

[barmouth]

for the most part, this is not recommended"

I'll second that.

Complete new install. Microsoft Backup is marvellous, isn't it? Restored everything, but just not quite in the right place. Why was I not surprised.....

 

[barmouth]

Nothing is ever simple is it?

System all up and running, fully service packed and patched.

Trying to install Photoshop from CD.

Tell it to install in F:\win\progs\adobe (it's default where F is the win partition) and it starts to unpack files, stops and announces that it's stopped because the drive is full. Well it would be because it's also saying that it's installing to G: - which is the cd drive the ps cd is in......

Tried to tell it to install to a different drive, but it still tries to install in G, no matter what I've told it.

Have installed Office and other stuff with no such fault, help!

John

 

[aftertaf]

oh dear...

sledgehammer?

Aftertaf

getting quite good at sorting out Windows problems...
An expert when it comes to crashing Linux distributions (mdk, debian - nothing withstands me)

 

[bcastner]

Tell it to install to E:\win\progs\adobe ??

 

[barmouth]

Thanks chaps.

Sort of trod the middle road between Aftertaf and bcastner's paths. Tried again, same deal whichever way I pointed it. This time I pushed the cd drawer in a bit harder and said a little secret prayer which nearly always works on my machines. I typed more firmly too. C:\ D:\ E:\ H:\

Still no go.

Then, by chance, looking through the prog files directory, noticed a little plus on adobe. Knowing that I had acroreader in there, the little + aroused my suspicions.

So I looked, and there it was, a whole PhotoShop install, all bar the prog files entry. And it works.

Very very odd.

Thanks for 'being there' for me.

John