Re: Installing Windows 2000 Drive Letters

From: Jetro (ik9480_at_spam.rogers.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:53:20 -0400

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.

Relevant Pages

  • 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 ...
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  • 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
    ... 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.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 ...
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    ... 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)