1st, I am running XP with 3 NTFS Partitions.  Yes, my System partition was renamed 
(to I:, and therefore I had many apps misbehaving.)

Sacha, THANK YOU for the missing piece of the puzzle!!!!

Here's the workaround.  (I just tested it successfully and I am back to C: for the 
system partition.

Step 1:  Make the regiustry changes as specified in the KB article, and exit regedit.

Step 2:  ***BEFORE YOU REBOOT*** run XP setup.  Select "upgrade", and walk through 
the steps.  When the system reboots, it starts in setup mode.  Go ahead and let the 
setup run through completion (57 minutes in my case), and when you are done, you 
will have your system back, configured properly.  True, you'll need to reapply service 
pack 1a and any hotfixes, and change any drivers that you do not want to be MS drivers 
(in my case I prefer the Promise controller drivers to Microsoft's), but you will 
be back in business.

FWIW, I was at the Windows Server 2003 Launch today and talked to MS reps who were 
supposedly XP gurus, and one said he remembered a KB article, but not anything about 
it.  I had to reason this out myself, and, happily, my resoning was not faulty.

:-) :-) :-)






On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 9:37 pm, sacha wrote:
>UH DON'T DO THIS. 
>I just had to learn how to restore the registry from
>dos.
>KEERIPES.
>I was unable to load xp after changing this key.
>I may go through more of the registry for key changes and see if this works..
>Anyway.. your old registrys are in windows\repair
>if you have backed them up.
>God help you if you're NTFS file system without another XP or linux machine.
>
>

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