Re: Boot drive letter has changed

Many thanks to everyone's advice.
MK

"Mike Fields" wrote:

>
> "Rock" <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:Or29QS8CGHA.3856@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > K wrote:
> >
> > > I shut down my pc as normal, the following day it would not boot up,
> it
> > > appears the C: drive has changed to the E: drive so my boot.ini
> doesn't
> > > recognise where the operating system is.
> > > I can rebuild the boot.ini but this will then boot from E: drive, I
> presume
> > > my programs will not work as they are linked to C: drive.
> > >
> > > Should I do this, could I reorganise the drive letters once I was up
> and
> > > running again or is it not that simple?
> > >
> > > Also any idea why this would have happened, before shutdown I had
> updated
> > > windows (from latest windows updates) & also Nortons av, nothing I
> haven't
> > > done in the past.
> > >
> > > Windows prof SP2
> > > Many thanks
> > > MK
> >
> > How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/en-us
> >
> > --
> > Rock
> > MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
>
> Like Rock says -- you definitely want to change the drive
> back to C again since all of the links on the drive still point
> to C -- if you were to change the boot.ini to point to E,
> when it came up (if it did), all the links would be busted
> (this includes registry settings) that point to C.
>
> The link Rock points to should work, the other way to
> do it involves rewriting the MBR so the signature of
> the drive changes and booting with only that drive in
> the system so when windows finds it, it assigns it the
> letter C. (an easy way to get this screwed up is to
> restore from an image of the C drive to a drive in the
> system then reboot with both drives still there -- XP
> will then assign a letter other than what you want to
> the restored drive and the fun begins ...
>
> mikey
>
>