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to: Geo.
from: Chris Robinson
date: 2002-12-03 17:20:00
subject: Re: XP Boot/ System Partitions

From: Chris Robinson 

Actually that's a good point - I think I may have done a system repair a
while back - that could've caused it?

Is it possible to put it back though?

Chris.

"Geo." wrote:

> When you boot, has the boot menu changed at all or is it the same as always?
> Did you do a system repair and is that what caused this? Typically a
> computer will always boot from the first partition on the first drive so
> unless you rearranged hardware I don't see how that could have changed
> unless you set it from SCSI to IDE (or visa versa) in bios and you have NT
> installed on a scsi drive or something like that.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Chris Robinson"  wrote in message
> news:3debbf4e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > My XP install went a bit odd a while back and some of the drive
> > letters changed without me telling it to (I think it had something to
> > do with the built-in cd buringing feature).  Anyway, that's not too
> > important as my system works fine atm.  The problem is that I used to
> > have (or at least I thought I had) one Windows partition that acted as
> > my boot and system partition.  The partition in question is now my
> > boot partition only (i.e. contains windows directory etc) and now my
> > Unreal Tournament partition has become my system partition (i.e.
> > contains ntldr etc).
> >
> > This could have something to do with my UT partition being C: drive?
> > Anyway, I was wondering if there was a way to switch this back so that
> > I had one partition that was the boot and system partition?  I have no
> > data at all apart from the OS on my windows drive so a format and
> > reinstall isn't out of the question (as a last resort)....
> >
> > I've been looking around for a while and the closest thing I've found
> > is how to change the drive letter of the system partition....
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris.

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