Re: Remove Hard Drive info from XP Registry

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:38:28 -0400

Hi,

You need to do a repair install. You won't lose your accounts, data, and
installed applications this way, but you need to do this to get the right
file system set to match the hardware. See this:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm 

-- 
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"AustinTex" <AustinTex@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:C40F97A3-5C90-4026-A650-659E511D67C9@microsoft.com...
> My original system hard drive was failing sectors rapidly.  Before losing 
> the
> entire drive, I managed to do an image copy to a new Segate drive.  My 
> goal
> was to avoid a full reinstall given the time that would be required to 
> reload
> all of the existing applications and user data.  I then swapped the 
> Seagate
> drive as drive C:.  All applications are working, the data is all there 
> but,
> on bootup, XP tries to install the new drives and then fails due to filter
> driver conflicts.
>
> I want to back out hardware definitions from the registry so that XP can
> properly install and account for the new drive.  Is this the correct path
> and, if so, what entries should I remove?
>
>

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