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Dec 31, 2004, 03:26 AM
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Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 14,676
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I killed it
accidentally changed the drive letter on he bootable windows partition, and now it won't boot.
It gets to the welcome to windows screen and hangs so i have a mouse, and a blue screen with the windows logo, etc. (no login, no nothing)
Is there a way to reverse this?
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Dec 31, 2004, 03:29 AM
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DriverHeaven Lover
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: In your backyard
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As far as i know windows prevents you from changing the drive letter from the active windows enviroment ( you get a pop-up which says it can't change the drive letter for the windows partition ), so how did you do it?
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Dec 31, 2004, 03:33 AM
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 5,989
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How To Restore the System/Boot Drive Letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223188/
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This article describes how to change the system or boot drive letter in Windows. For the most part, this is not recommended, especially if the drive letter is the same as when Windows was installed. The only time that you may want to do this is when the drive letters get changed without any user intervention. This may happen when you break a mirror volume or there is a drive configuration change. This should be a rare occurrence and you should change the drive letters back to match the initial installation.
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Dec 31, 2004, 05:14 AM
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Elite Motherf#$%er
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 2,833
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Last known good configuration?
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Dec 31, 2004, 12:30 PM
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Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 14,676
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Originally Posted by Ctrl-Alt-Del
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that's how i broke it.
Windows decided for some reason my SMARTCARD Reader was drive C:, and hard disk was drive H:, so i tried that to change it 
now it won't even boot for me to fix it.
Can it be done from recovery console, or should I just reinstall it? |
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Dec 31, 2004, 03:32 PM
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2003
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you can't edit the Windows registry from the Recovery Console, but you can restore a backup from the repair folder.. you can try it before reformating your HDD if you like to.
and if you have to reformat don't forget to delete this partition and create a new one for the new setup.
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How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;307545
5. At the Recovery Console command prompt, type the following lines, pressing ENTER after you type each line:
md tmp
copy c:\windows\system32\config\system c:\windows\tmp\system.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\software c:\windows\tmp\software.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\sam c:\windows\tmp\sam.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\security c:\windows\tmp\security.bak
copy c:\windows\system32\config\default c:\windows\tmp\default.bak
delete c:\windows\system32\config\system
delete c:\windows\system32\config\software
delete c:\windows\system32\config\sam
delete c:\windows\system32\config\security
delete c:\windows\system32\config\default
copy c:\windows\repair\system c:\windows\system32\config\system
copy c:\windows\repair\software c:\windows\system32\config\software
copy c:\windows\repair\sam c:\windows\system32\config\sam
copy c:\windows\repair\security c:\windows\system32\config\security
copy c:\windows\repair\default c:\windows\system32\config\default
6. Type exit to quit Recovery Console. Your computer will restart.
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Dec 31, 2004, 03:42 PM
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Like a Fish
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Southern California
Posts: 19,492
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well.....if it were, me, i'd reformat  . if you have stuff you need to back up first, grab a spare hdd, install windows on that as a temp, and back up your stuff to where you back up your stuff to. Then take your normal OS hdd, and reinstall windows on that. remove the power plug from any other HDDs to make sure that windows doesn't want to be installed on some weird partition like "H" like how it's messed up now on your system (no offense). Well, that's what i would do at least. |
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Dec 31, 2004, 06:30 PM
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Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 14,676
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it became H because i forgot to disable all the smartcard and memorystick drives that are onboard
o well..I'll just reformat and deal with it i suppose |
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Dec 31, 2004, 10:23 PM
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Like a Fish
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Southern California
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how did not disabling them in your BIOS make one of your smartcard and/or memory stick drives become the "C" drive and make your HDD the "H" drive? I would assume that once it's set in the BIOS, it should stay the same unless you change it.
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Jan 1, 2005, 12:16 AM
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Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
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i know, but because of the way it was arranged in the BIOS (enabled by default), the drive lettering labeled the smart drives first, and the hard drive last  |
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Jan 1, 2005, 01:01 AM
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Like a Fish
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Southern California
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lame! what kind of board is it? Can't you manually change the flash drives so it will set your primary HDD back to "C"?
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Jan 1, 2005, 01:38 AM
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Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 14,676
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i can, but I didn't...lol
It's an ASUS, so it's not the board's fault...it's mine |
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