Re: Need Advice Changing Drive Letter

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From: BillyBoy (noreply_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:07:34 -0500

Thanks but Win2000 was installed on drive F which is the master. I want to
change it to C and run it as the master. The old drive should remain as the
slave.

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
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> 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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