[AccessD] OT: W2K gurus your advice is needed...

Shamil,

You can change drive letter in Control anel|Administrative ools|Computer
Management|Disk Management by right clicking the Change drive letter item on
the menu.

Jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru>
To: "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:54 AM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: W2K gurus your advice is needed...


> Hi All,
>
> Here is a tough one - at least the system engineers I know here can't
answer
> this question/help me:
>
> - as the result of my hardware upgrade and different (stupid)
manipulations
> I've got my system disk (W2K) getting I: as drive letter instead of C:
> during booting (all the other five disks are OK - D:, E:, F:, G:, H:)...
>
> Funny? Yes - as the result when I try to logon after booting it accepts
> password but then after some time instead of showing desktop icons etc. it
> shows "Saving your settings" dialog and returns to Logon dialog...
>
> I've found that system disk gets I: drive letter instead of C: by
connecting
> to the problematic PC from another computer and by using Disk Management
> system utility. I've also used Event viewer to see that W2K can't start
> system programs and services because it expects C:\..... as system
drive...
> (It's interesting that it works at all... - this W2K is a good
software....)
>
> MS probably never tested such a use case as I managed to create here!...
>
> Well, the question is how/and where can I set system drive letter back to
> C:. I tried to find something in registry but failed. Is that written in a
> system file? Which one?
>
> Of course I've backup and I can try to restore from it but maybe it's
> quicker to replace just one(?) file where physical<->logical disk
> correspondence is stored? (I've spent quite some time on all that - first
> thought was that this is MSBLAST but I run MSBLAST fix and it didn't find
> anything... )
>
> Does anybody know how is this drive mapping system file called and is it
> possible to solve my task by just overwriting this file? (of course I will
> boot from another drive and use problematic drive as slave and use backup
> copy to overwrite system file keeping drives mappings)...
>
> TIA for any info, tips and tricks,
> I hope there are real NT gurus here,
> Shamil
>
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>
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