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by bawadod

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Long time after upgrading from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Server, my drive letter assignments have been changed around. Previous to the upgrade, NT 4.0 was installed on the C: drive,Now its D:.
even the CD-rom drive has also changed.
Now there is no C: letter assigned. I cant change the letter assignment from Disk manager because it says that it is a system partition.
Has anyone else experienced this reassigning of drives? Any Idea.
Thanks,

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by trurod70

Why not install Win2000 on another hard disk. Then boot off that hard disk. After that you should be able to change the drive letter on the other hard drive.

by syspop

Microsoft addresses this problem in several knowledge base articles. Some of them relate specifically to upgrades from NT to Win2K.

Go to: http://support.microsoft.com

Look up each of these articles:

Q102877 (Repartition problem)
Q141188 (Old NT partition on disk)
Q158457 (NODRIVE - C: is hidden)
Q221799 (After Win2K upgrade)

Good Luck

by avatar17

If you arn't into the whole reinstall thing you might be able to find a tool on 2000 somewhere in the control panel (i've seen it before but i primarily se NT) called Disk Administrator. This will allow you to change the drive letters to whatever you want, juts be sure to commmit changes after you do so or it will not take effect.

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