Re: Drive Image Restore,Boot problem.

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From: Pavel (Atin90_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:49:21 -0800

The new drive already had a NTFS partition on it that may or may not have
contained another copy of WindowsXP. The restore program probably gave you
the option to overwrite or create new partition and you chosen to create new
partition. 

-- 
Pavel
"Floppy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A4ADC2B0-7F31-4329-9585-67DD94EF3E63@microsoft.com...
> Hello , big problem to restart WinXp Pro after restore my drive image .
> My drive letter before in disk management was : C:\ ntfs partition for my
old win2k  , D:\CDROM drive , e:\ntfs partion for my new Xp pro .
> I changed my defective drive and restore my backup image , but the drive
letter are not the same with the new disk wich they are c:\ntfs partition ,
d:\ntfs partition , e:\CDROM drive . When i restore my backup image , on d:\
ntfs partition , Win xp doesn't boot (Blue screen) all registry entry are
wrong due of  all paths of installed programs previously on my old disk was
on a different drive letter. Is anything i can do with the console or
anything else to correct those drive letter on my new disk to match my
previous harware and software configuration .
>
> Need some help .
> Thank you.

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