Windows 95 Drive Letters May Not Migrate to Windows 2000

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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.
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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.
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STATUS

This behavior is by design.
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MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, see the following article or articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
234048
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234048/EN-US/ )
How Windows 2000 Assigns, Reserves and Stores Drive Letters
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Article ID: 227605 - Last Review: October 30, 2006 - Revision: 3.1
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  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
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