re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter Monday, December 16, 2002 at 4:08 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by TheJaKal (1 messages posted) Right, if u are stuck in XP without being able to log on, and dont feel like trying the above method (ie cant be bothered) then just pop your XP cd in, choose fresh install, then repair..... also sorts your drive letter out as well :) Good luck On Monday, December 9, 2002 at 12:03 am, freak wrote: >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. > > > Written in response to: re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (freak: Monday, December 9, 2002 at 12:03 am) Responses to this message: re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (Peter Carucci: Monday, December 30, 2002 at 8:12 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (Harry Frank: Sat, Nov 2, 2002, 8:02 am) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (alek: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 7:53 am) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (Harry Frank: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 8:20 am) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (alek: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 9:11 am) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (Steve: Sun, Dec 1, 2002, 8:25 pm) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (Fernando Castillo: Sat, Dec 7, 2002, 4:33 pm) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (freak: Mon, Dec 9, 2002, 12:03 am) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (TheJaKal: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 4:08 am) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (Peter Carucci: Mon, Dec 30, 2002, 8:12 am) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (Ben: Fri, Jan 3, 2003, 1:35 pm) re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (William: Wed, Mar 5, 2003, 7:33 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum