re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter
Monday, December 9, 2002 at 12:03 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by freak
(1 messages posted)
Hallo,
I had a similar Problem. It was really freaky to solve, took me 8 hours (!), I'm
so glad now.
I can't tell you how to change the drive letter of the boot partition, it's only
about making the system running again.
Ok, the main thing is: you need do set the registry entries to their former values.
It's only about swapping two sinlge letters in a file!!
Path of the registry file:
windows\system32\config\system
Search for strings "dosdevices". The Results look like in regedit "\DosDevices\C:"
or "\DosDevices\D:".
Swap the drive letters that you changed before or which you think might have changed.
Don't do it in WordPad as it changes the file format and makes the file useless.
Make a backup copy before!
This was all I had to do. Fortunately I had a second OS on my PC (Win98) enabling
me to start the computer at all. I first had to get a tool to get access to the ntfs-partition
(ntfs for windows 98). RegdatXP is a tool to analyze the above named registry file.
My Problem was caused by "brutally" changing drive letters with partition magic but
this program fortunately created another "MountedDevice1"-Key which contained the
original settings. Finally I needed an editor apart from notepad and wordpad. Last
Problem was to copy the sytem file back. Therefore I startet the recovery console
from the xp-cd-rom.
Good luck everybody!
PS.: And don't change too much drive letters.......;-)
I won't.
On Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 4:33 pm, Fernando Castillo wrote:
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>I have the same problem... if anyone knows a workaround please post.
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>-- Fernando
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