Re: Did insane thing- now comp. trying to boot D: which has no OS

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Hi;
I did an insane thing, and only a Pro will be able to help me out
with this doozey!
Here are my details.
I have 3 P4 networked computers, all running WinXP.
On one, I put a dual boot with WinXP Pro & Home.
Home was on C: drive and Pro was on D: drive.
I got rid of Home, and in the boot.ini I deleted the reference to
booting to C: Home, so that Pro would just quickly boot up D: Pro.
Fine & Dandy.
But then, I decided I wanted Pro to have the C: drive letter. So I
went into regedit and set the permissions and changed the drive
Letter to C: However! I forgot to change the boot.ini back to C:
Now I cannot access Pro, because the comp. is trying to boot to D:
which has no OS -but WinXP will not reinstall on it either.
Any suggestions would be welcome for sure, as you can well imagine.

There is no easy way to change the drive letter of the system volume. You
may not be able to get your system back to a workable state. You need to
back up any important data now. You can use a Linux CD or BartPe to boot
from a CD and copy your important data to CD or DVD. Once you have a
backup you can use BartPe to try and edit the registry back to where you
started. Alternatively you could format and reinstall XP.

http://www.knoppix.org/

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

You can use the recovery console to fix the boot.ini

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330184

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Kerry
Thanks a mill. Kerry
I could only figure out one solution, which I went ahead and did.
I reformatted and reinstalled. Serves me right I guess. :-)
But I will look into your links for future reference....not that I would
ever do that doozey again. Ha ;-)
Lyn



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