Found out today from M that the email machine here at work is up the creek, after taking a look at it it appears that Windows 98 has finally give up the ghost on that box. So she gave me a slightly newer box to move all the files onto. Shame the new box had Windows 95b on it though. So I repartitioned the drive, and installed Windows 2000 instead.

Finally got through that install only to find out that instead of using the letter D: for the new partition (with Win2k on it) it’s used E:! Most irritating, so I installed the old hard drive from the email machine, backed up the files I needed and wiped it. Then moved all the files from C: (which is still a working install of 95 and I’m not sure if anything is still required) onto the old drive and then set about reinstalling 2000 onto a completely clean drive and using only the one partition this time.

So now I should have a 10GB C: drive with 2000 on it, and a 1.6GB drive with a load of files from a Win95 installation – which won’t boot as I’ve broken the boot files (but that’s easily fixed )

Fun, don’t you think?