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

Lembit,

The problem AFAIU is with NT booting processe(s) getting/setting wrong drive
mapping stored(?) in a system file - the drive itself is OK - I investigated
it by making it slave - using hardware jumpers and booting from another
physical drive...

Shamil


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lembit Soobik" <Lembit.Soobik at t-online.de>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: W2K gurus your advice is needed...


> Shamil,
> do you have Partition Magic?
> I'm not sure whter it helps in your case, but it has the option to change
drive
> letters.
> Lembit
>
> Lembit Soobik
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru>
> To: "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:54 PM
> 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
> >
> > --
> > e-mail: shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
> > Web: http://www.smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s
> >
> >
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