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01-05-2006, 02:26 AM
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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 > > 
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