I have a laptop that is set-up to dual boot windows 98 and Windows 2000 pro.

Windows 98 installed on IDE0 Part #1
Windows 2000 pro installed on Part #2
Cd-rom drive installed on IDE1

In 98 the drive letters are C: part 1, D: part 2, and E: cd-rom which I have changed to "Q" due to a mapped network drive used all over my company as "E". (This is what is causing the real problem, that someone didn't have any more forethought than to use "E" as the main network drive.)

In 2000 the drive letters are C: part 1, D: cd-rom, and E: part 2

I cannot change the drive letter of the system directory in windows 2000. Is there some method I'm missing?

The only two ways I can think of to fix this are:

1) To repartition my hard drive with three partitions and reinstall windows 2000 in the third partition, which I assume would be "F", but I'm not sure. Then "E" would not be the system drive and I could edit (change) the drive letter. OR

2) I could copy my windows 2000 cd-rom to my C drive, and physically remove the laptop cd-rom drive and install windows 2000 from C-drive without a cd-rom installed in the machine. (Hopefully that would make the system drive "D" and I could later reinstall my cd-rom and it would presumably be "E", in which case I could just change the drive letter.


What I would really like is a third alternative that doesn’t require me to reload windows 2000(again), or to at least know if either of my solutions would likely work.

Any Ideas?

Thanks
-Craig