Re: Appreciate any help in restoring C:

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:03:56 -0500, "G-Artist"
<g-artist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MSI motherboard
2 WDC 120 gig HD's
AMD dual processor.

Foolishly, I over pruned my bloated registry and upon
re-boot I had no desktop icons.

So I grabbed my slipstreamed copy of XP Home (it has
SP2 on it) and did a repair/install. That went fine until the
final reboot where a box popped up telling me I had to
'activate' (no 30 days). I chose to do so. After sitting doing
nothing for a while I got a screen which allowed me to choose
to log on as Administrator or as me. No matter what I chose,
be it logging on as whomever, choosing activate or choosing
'no activation' it was a continuous loop.

Since I have two exact same HD's, each with an equal partition,
I mirror my C: to D: every couple of weeks in case of a crash.
D: will boot. My drives were A, C, D, E, F with G being my CD/DVD

Went to the BIOS and told it to boot from D: It did. It made the
old D: drive C: and the old C: drive D: according to Windows Explorer.

Probably a foolish move but using ERUNT I copied the backup
drive's (which is now C:) registry and put it on what used to be C:
hoping it would get me out of that loop. That worked, sort of.

Problem is, going back into the BIOS and trying multiple dozens of
times I could not get the computer to boot from the original C:. It kept
booting from the old D: (now C:).

So I opened the case and disconnected the old D:. The computer did
boot but it is basically unusable as this drive (original C:) is still being
recognized as "Local Disk (D:). All my icons point to C:\whatever so
not much runs.

I'd sure appreciate any assistance in getting the C: designation properly
restored and w/o having to reformat.

Thanks....



Did you ever get this problem resolved?
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