Problem: When I install windows, I end up with the boot files on another drive, i want them all on the 'C drive' not on my drive full of something else or my temp drive.
I have a raid0 array of 2x 250G drives, anyway I have one partition that is ~450 gigs and the rest I use for my system, the general idea is I want the setup like this
partiton #1 - Windows with all its boot files!
partition #2 - temp drive, IE cache, etc
partition #3 - my 450 gig partition of 'stuff'
For some reason i will end up with ntdl, msdos.sys, boot.ini and all those files on one of my other drives that i do not want that stuff on. It would be simple enough if I could just move that 450 gigs of stuff some where else for a bit, but I do not have the extra space for that.
So far my ideas have been to use linux fdisk and change the 2 digit partiton type ID thing to something else, then change it back after installing, but im not sure that will work and do not want to loose my data.
I also seem to think that having that 450 gigs as a extended/logical drive would get windows not to put crap there on install.. I also wondered if this had to do with what partiton was active, i can try most these options without screwing anything up but wanted to know if we knew why windows chooses to put crap on my other partition while installing windows on another.
any help would be appreciated, thanks
I have a raid0 array of 2x 250G drives, anyway I have one partition that is ~450 gigs and the rest I use for my system, the general idea is I want the setup like this
partiton #1 - Windows with all its boot files!
partition #2 - temp drive, IE cache, etc
partition #3 - my 450 gig partition of 'stuff'
For some reason i will end up with ntdl, msdos.sys, boot.ini and all those files on one of my other drives that i do not want that stuff on. It would be simple enough if I could just move that 450 gigs of stuff some where else for a bit, but I do not have the extra space for that.
So far my ideas have been to use linux fdisk and change the 2 digit partiton type ID thing to something else, then change it back after installing, but im not sure that will work and do not want to loose my data.
I also seem to think that having that 450 gigs as a extended/logical drive would get windows not to put crap there on install.. I also wondered if this had to do with what partiton was active, i can try most these options without screwing anything up but wanted to know if we knew why windows chooses to put crap on my other partition while installing windows on another.
any help would be appreciated, thanks