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To start with, do a search in regedit and see how many times C:\WINNT appears in your registry.
Why would you want to do this on a server?
Jeff
I haven't lost my mind - I know it's backed up on tape somewhere ....
Why would you want to do this on a server?
Jeff
I haven't lost my mind - I know it's backed up on tape somewhere ....
This can be done...I;ve done it a few times on a very basic NT install.
(Reason you might have to do this: I built a Windows 2000 server build loaded on the C: drive. I then wanted to dual boot to NT 4.0 server. But because 2K was on NTFS 5.0, I could not load NT 4.0...even on a different partition. Reason, NT 4.0 couldn't modify the boot.ini on the NTFS 5.0 partition. Anyway, I disconnected the C: drive from the system, Then I load NT 4.0 server on my second hard drive. When I reconnected the primary hard drive and booted using a boot disk with ARC naming modified, I saw that my NT 4.0 WinNt dir was now on D:\ rather than C:\....so I had to edit the registry by find and replace anything with "C" do "D".)
To do this, you will have to do a find and replace in your registry ("c" to "d"
. Also, you will have to modify your boot.ini file. I would also break all OS mirrors before doing this. Also, I would remove all C: shares and then re-share after move is complete. This is not a procedure you should do on a production machine...I would only attempt this in a test environment.
Hope this helps
Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000
(Reason you might have to do this: I built a Windows 2000 server build loaded on the C: drive. I then wanted to dual boot to NT 4.0 server. But because 2K was on NTFS 5.0, I could not load NT 4.0...even on a different partition. Reason, NT 4.0 couldn't modify the boot.ini on the NTFS 5.0 partition. Anyway, I disconnected the C: drive from the system, Then I load NT 4.0 server on my second hard drive. When I reconnected the primary hard drive and booted using a boot disk with ARC naming modified, I saw that my NT 4.0 WinNt dir was now on D:\ rather than C:\....so I had to edit the registry by find and replace anything with "C" do "D".)
To do this, you will have to do a find and replace in your registry ("c" to "d"
. Also, you will have to modify your boot.ini file. I would also break all OS mirrors before doing this. Also, I would remove all C: shares and then re-share after move is complete. This is not a procedure you should do on a production machine...I would only attempt this in a test environment. Hope this helps
Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2000
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