Re: Setting active drive/partition in XP

Where do I find this string?

"Haggis" wrote:

> look at
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
>
> rename C: to Z: then D: ? to C:
>
> "D:" being what it was when slaved ?
>
> "Miescha" <Miescha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C9B327DF-3416-406F-99C0-5CCF3E03B2BC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I'm new to XP pro, but not computers overall. Our small company is
> preparing
> > to move from WIN 2K pro to XP pro. I set up and "played" with one of our
> new
> > PCs using XP pro and all the various software we use. After little more
> than
> > a week, I'm happy with XP pro and confident the system is stable and fully
> > 'updated' (for now).
> >
> > In an attempt to deploy the setup to the other PCs, I connected a second
> > hard drive and used Symantec's Norton Ghost 10 (part of SystemWorks 2006)
> to
> > "copy my hard drive" to the second 'target' drive from the first 'source'
> > drive. I selected the options to copy the MBR and set the 'target' drive
> as
> > active. After completion, I shut down and removed the 'target' drive.
> >
> > Upon installing the 'target' drive to one of the new PCs (all identical
> > machines with identical or nearly identical hardware to the 'source'
> machine)
> > all did not work well - the POST went fine and the 'starting windows'
> > appeared but then the machine froze on what looked like the shut down/log
> out
> > screen of XP (blue background with small XP logo). That is a question for
> > another time perhaps.
> >
> > The problem at the moment is that when I put the second 'target' drive
> back
> > in the original 'source' PC, it is still listed as the active drive and
> the
> > 'source' drive is listed only as a 'system' drive. The disk management
> > console with not let me change this (the 'make partition active choice is
> > greyed out). What am I missing? In this state, XP will not let me format
> > the 'target' drive and Ghost 10 will not let me duplicate the 'source'
> drive
> > to the 'target' and format in the process b/c it is the current active
> drive.
> > I also tried to change the active setting using DISKPART inside XP and
> FDISK
> > from a WIN98 boot disk - no luck with either (although FDISK shows the
> > 'source' disk as the active disk when it is the only disk connected).
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
>
>
.

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