Move boot sector?

[Ken Krone]

I have just finished partitioning and installing a replacement hard
drive on my Dell laptop. I must have made some bizarre choices, as c:
drive is marked System and f: drive is marked as the boot drive.
I had partioned the drive into three, planning on the boot and system
drive as C:, with two additional partitions as D; and E: drive The
CD-Rom is now the D: drive, but had the F: drive not been the boot
drive, I could have assigned different drive letters.

1. Can I change the boot drive to the C: drive? If so, how?

2. If not, where can I find files that will allow me to reformat and
repartition the drive from scratch? The Dell Windows XP disk did so
with a the new, unformatted disk, but now that the disk has been
formatted, I don't see files that will do the low-level formatting.

Thanks
Ken K

[David Candy]

NT based computers boot from the system drive and have the windows =
directory on the boot drive. That's MS speak. So C should be marked =
system (although it doesn't always choose C as the drive letter). =
Reinstall windows to C drive.

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"Ken Krone" > wrote in message =
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> I have just finished partitioning and installing a replacement hard=20
> drive on my Dell laptop. I must have made some bizarre choices, as c: =

> drive is marked System and f: drive is marked as the boot drive.
> I had partioned the drive into three, planning on the boot and system=20
> drive as C:, with two additional partitions as D; and E: drive The=20
> CD-Rom is now the D: drive, but had the F: drive not been the boot=20
> drive, I could have assigned different drive letters.
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> 1. Can I change the boot drive to the C: drive? If so, how?
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> 2. If not, where can I find files that will allow me to reformat and=20
> repartition the drive from scratch? The Dell Windows XP disk did so=20
> with a the new, unformatted disk, but now that the disk has been=20
> formatted, I don't see files that will do the low-level formatting.
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> Thanks
> Ken K
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[Alex Nichol]

David Candy wrote:

>NT based computers boot from the system drive and have the windows directory on the boot drive. That's MS speak. So C should be marked system (although it doesn't always choose C as the drive letter). Reinstall windows to C drive.

Add: It probably arose through having a Zip drive or something similar
in place at Setup. Remove it and start over, deleting the present
partition so as to make sure the Setup does not continue with letters
already in place


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)