Re: Installing Windows 2000 Drive Letters

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:26:46 -0600

The article title used to be "How To Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in
Windows" I at least got them to change that. 

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"Jetro" wrote:
| Apparently this article should be re-written in more plain and layman
| language.
|
| It was quite surprised reading it at a glance  - it's seemed too good to
be
| true and contradicted all the experience - until I found the warning
(sorry,
| I follow all the Murphy's laws :) which clearly states "Do not use the
| procedure that is described in this article to change a drive on a
computer
| where the drive letter has not changed. If you do so, you may not be able
to
| start your operating system. Follow the procedure that is described in
this
| article only to recover from a drive letter change, not to change an
| existing computer drive to something else." This warning must be printed
in
| bold and largest point!
|
| I change the C: letter on XP box as described and after restart and logon
| attempt the nice warning popped up: "A problem is preventing Windows from
| accurately checking the license for this computer. ERROR 0x80090006."
| All-hackers mentor Jerold Schulman explains: "This problem is the result
of
| the hardware ID on the restored installation being different from the
| hardware hash calculated for the current hardware. To resolve this
problem,
| perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP and reactivate the Windows XP
| license." Thank you very much, I was thinking, but I don't want no silly
| in-place upgrades and quickly returned the letter C: (maybe I deleted the
| value completely). As expected, the system's been shaken but didn't raise
a
| brow and came to life.
|
| Next victim was W2k installation just for redundancy. It wasn't
interesting
| already: after the first reboot I got infamous warning "No paging file" so
| it involved registry editing at HKLM\SYSTEM\CCS\Control\Session
| Manager\Memory Management, REG_MULTI_SIZE "PagingFiles", and after that
| logon got in the dead loop without any warning as predicted. I gave up.
|
|

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  • Re: Installing Windows 2000 Drive Letters
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    (microsoft.public.win2000.file_system)
  • Re: Installing Windows 2000 Drive Letters
    ... The article title used to be "How To Change the System/Boot Drive Letter in ... Windows" I at least got them to change that. ... | where the drive letter has not changed. ... This warning must be printed ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.hardware)
  • Re: Installing Windows 2000 Drive Letters
    ... true and contradicted all the experience - until I found the warning (sorry, ... where the drive letter has not changed. ... hardware hash calculated for the current hardware. ... perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP and reactivate the Windows XP ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.file_system)
  • Re: Installing Windows 2000 Drive Letters
    ... true and contradicted all the experience - until I found the warning (sorry, ... where the drive letter has not changed. ... hardware hash calculated for the current hardware. ... perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP and reactivate the Windows XP ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
  • Re: Installing Windows 2000 Drive Letters
    ... true and contradicted all the experience - until I found the warning (sorry, ... where the drive letter has not changed. ... hardware hash calculated for the current hardware. ... perform an in-place upgrade of Windows XP and reactivate the Windows XP ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.hardware)