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

Shamil,

    You might consider trying the Command Console. I have found it useful for partitioning etc. but did not yet have the occasion to try renaming of drives. Steps for setting up the console for Win_XP are given below. I understand similar is the case for Win_2K.
    Insert Win_XP Installation Disk. Exit the Installation Screen (If it crops up). Go to the Command Prompt. Go to the drive holding the CD. Change Directory to  i386 . Type the Command     winnt32.exe  /cmdcons     and press Enter. Follow the Wizard.
    On rebooting, Command Console (Also called Recovery Console) will be offered as an option.

Regards,
A.D.Tejpal
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shamil Salakhetdinov 
  To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 
  Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 22:57
  Subject: Re: [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>
  To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
  <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
  Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 9:15 PM
  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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