I'm trying to temporarily have the Boot and System disks, NOT be the first
partition on my primary master drive.

The primary master is drive C, the next volume on the same physical disk is
drive S. These are dynamic disks under Windows Server 2000.

I'm about to install Windows Server 2003, and I want it to be installed in
the partition (or volume) with drive letter C, but first I want to delete
the volume and recreate it, in order to completely get rid of all of the
old data and program files that were there.

I have copied everything from C to S. The problem is, even when I boot
from a floppy, and then select disk 0 partition 2, Disk Management STILL
tells me that C is the "System" disk, and S is correctly marked as the
"Boot" disk.

I can't tell what is still being used on the C drive! Or why Windows is
calling it the System disk, since I booted from a floppy.

(I need to keep the Windows Server 2000 system available until I am
completely sure the 2003 system has everything working. I don't have the
luxury of making the new server from completely new hardware.)

How can I tell why Windows is calling the C drive the System volume?


David Walker