re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Thursday, June 2, 2005 at 4:54 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Conrad Smith
(5 messages posted)
I had this problem with a PC, the system drive becoming drive F: after a System Restore
problem. This solution worked a charm, providing me with a running system in an hour
or so.
I was able to change the Windows system drive from f: to c: without reformatting
and reinstalling. Sacha, THANK YOU for the missing piece of the puzzle from me as
well. Thanks Pete for posting the full solution.
On Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 8:33 pm, Pete wrote:
>
>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.
>
>:-) :-) :-)
>
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