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

Jim,

It would have been easy task but unfortunately W2K doesn't let to change the
system drive letter through Control Panel->Administrative
Tools|ComputerManagement|Disk Management ...

Did you try to do that? - try.... - and you'll get a message:

"Cannot modify the drive letter of your system or boot volume."

Shamil

----- Original Message -----
From: "jmoss111" <jmoss111 at bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: W2K gurus your advice is needed...


> 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
> > >
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