Microsoft KB Archive/255612

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Windows 95 Drive Letters May Not Migrate to Windows 2000

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Q255612

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

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SYMPTOMS
When you upgrade your computer from Windows 95 to Windows 2000, drive letter assignments for unformatted partitions may not be migrated.

RESOLUTION
To work around this issue, it is recommended that you format all drives prior to installing Windows 2000 if you want to preserve your current drive letter configuration.

MORE INFORMATION
For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

"Q234048 How Windows 2000 Assigns, Reserves and Stores Drive Letters"

STATUS
This behavior is by design.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbnetwork KBW2KHOME

Issue type : kbprb

Technology : kbwin2000Search kbwin2000ProSearch kbwin2000Pro