Windows Drive Letters Problem

[mr.sly]

Hi guys.

This problem has been annoying me all day, and I can't seem to find a solution for it.

I have one drive with two paritions (Windows + Backup), I reinstalled Windows today and for some reason it has made Backup the C:\ drive and Windows is now on D:\

I've tried to follow the Microsoft information here but after restarting the computer won't boot past the Welcome screen.

I have also tried following the same guide and just changing Media (D:\) to Z:\. It now shows up in Windows as Z:\ but when I go to re-install to get Windows back onto C:\, the Backup partition is showing up as C:\ again.

Formatting the whole drive isn't really an option because I don't have any other hard drives to backup my files.

Any ideas for this at all?

 

[mr.sly]

Cheers for the reply guys.

There was a boot file on C:\ (the media drive) earlier on, but I got rid of that and it the Windows drive was still D:\ when I booted off the XP CD.

Just checked to see if I could see NTLDR and boot.ini on the D:\ I can't see the files, and search isn't finding them either. Can I create a boot.ini file myself?

 

[mr.sly]

If you're running XP there will be a boot.ini and ntldr files in the root of one of the partitions, you'll need to ensure that you have "show hidden files" turned on and possibly "hide protected OS files" off in the folder options.

You need to check the root of both c: and d:

Legend.

It was the "hide protected OS files" that was doing it. Never had to use that before.

Should I just move the NTLDR and boot.ini files across onto the D:\ or should I delete them and let Windows re-create them?