Drew Wutka
DWUTKA at marlow.com
Fri Aug 15 13:07:22 CDT 2003
Here ya go Shamil: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;249321 Tell your system engineers that it might help if they took a look at MS's KB once in a while! <evilgrin> Drew -----Original Message----- From: Shamil Salakhetdinov [mailto:shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:54 AM To: AccessD 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