re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter Friday, January 3, 2003 at 1:35 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ben (2 messages posted) DON'T delete the DosDevice value keys!!!! Rename them, so that the binary values (""A5 2B 17 41 00 08 F6 01 00 00 00 00") remain the same, and Windows can still identify the correct partitions to mount volumes. If you delete the key and type it in from scratch, you have no way to generate the binary signature of the partition! Listen to the other folks, and right click \DosDevices\J: (or whatever your system drive incorrectly is) and click Rename. Change the name to \DosDevices\C:, and make sure the binary value is still there (looks kinda like this: "A5 2B 17 41 00 08 F6 01 00 00 00 00") This will enable you to still boot your machine after fixing your registry entries. ;-) If you still have a problem, run the repair option of your Windows Setup CD to reinstall files and repair registry entries. Setup will respect your new mappings, and install to C:\. After setup is complete, search your registry for any remaining references to the wrong drive (for example, "J:\") and change them to C:\. On Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 7:53 am, jimi wrote: >backup your system!! > >· Go to Start > Run and type regedit and press Enter. >· Click your way down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > MountedDevices >· · Right click on \DOSDevices\C: and select delete. >· Right click on \DOSDevices\F: and select rename, and change F: to C: so it now >looks like \DOSDevices\C: >· Reboot the system and you should now have a new hard drive with all of your existing >settings as primery C. > > Written in response to: re: Changing Primary/Boot Drive Drive Letter (alek: Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 7:53 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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