jmoss111
jmoss111 at bellsouth.net
Fri Aug 15 12:15:54 CDT 2003
Should be: You can change drive letter in Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Computer Management|Disk Management by right clicking the Change drive letter item on the menu. ----- Original Message ----- From: "jmoss111" <jmoss111 at bellsouth.net> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [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 > > > > -- > > e-mail: shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru > > Web: http://www.smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com