Re: Need Advice Changing Drive Letter

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:54:33 +1100

"BillyBoy" <noreply@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:eCHDkVw6EHA.3700@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I did a new install on a new drive that I had set as a master while I had
my
> old drive still installed and set to slave. My new boot drive letter is
now
> "F"! The old drive of course was "C" but I changed it to "G" through the
> Admin Tools. So, I was wondering if I could change the new drive letter
by
> setting it to slave and the old drive to master. Then I could boot from
the
> old drive. Would I be able to change the drive letter of the new drive
back
> to "C"?
>
> Original Old Drive: Win98 on C
>
> New Drive: Win2K on F
>
> Original Old Drive letter changed to G
>
> Boot from Old Drive to change New Drive letter to C?
>
> TIA!!!
>
> BillyBoy
>
>

If Win2000 was installed on drive C: then you must always run it on
drive C:. Running it on drive F: will cause all sorts of problems. Here
is how to change it back:
1. Boot into Win2000.
2. Start a Command Prompt.
3. Type this command: set SystemDrive.
4. Make a note of the drive letter.
5. Run regedit.exe.
6. Navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
7. Delete all values called "\DosDevices\C:" etc. ***except***
    the one you noted in Step 4. above.
8. Turn off your machine.
9. Make your old disk the master, and the new disk the slave.

Your drive letter will now be correct. And remember that it is
not a good idea to make your system disk a slave!

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