slebus

The way I see how XP wants to letter the drives in the new system is by booting with the Install CD, going into Repair, and seeing the drive map there. What I observe is consistent with the boot failures. I did try with just the old drive 0 connected. Same result: 2K BSODs with "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE". Booting Safe Mode fails identically. It seems like this process would be desired by a lot of folks, i.e. you want to upgrade your system? Slip out your old drives (these days, could be 1 TB+) and plug them into a faster processor/memory system. Thanks submix8c for the ideas. One of them is gonna work. slebus

Thanks for your response. Actually, I don't want to change drive lettering from what it was on the old system - but XP does it anyway. I moved my drives with no physical changes (i.e. jumpering, etc.) from an older, dis-similar system where the mapping was: Drive 0, Part 0 = C: Drive 0, Part 1 = E: Drive 1, Part 0 = F: Drive 1, Part 1 = D: When the drives are plugged into the new system, XP maps them something like: Drive 0, Part 0 = C: Drive 0, Part 1 = D: Drive 1, Part 0 = E: Drive 1, Part 1 = F: I just want the original mapping back. Neither OS will boot completely now (2K BSODs, XP re-boots). Thanks again, for any help. slebus

I have two hard drives, with Win2K on drive 0, partition 0 (i.e. drive C:) and XP on drive 1, partition 0 (installed as drive F:). When I take those two drives and plug them into a different system, XP wants to letter them differently. How can I force XP to accept my desired drive-to-partition mapping? Much thanks! slebus