Re: Windows now boots but Drive has TWO letters!

npharrison wrote:
Further to my post just below about hal.dll being corrupted because
of a power outage, I disconnected my c: drive, which was my slave
drive, and went through the whole recovery procedure on my f: drive.
Recovery console failed to provide the solution, so I went and did a
Windows Repair.

That worked.

However, there is an unexpected side effect. When the machine starts
up, as I only have one drive connected, the master drive, the start
up screen tells me it is drive c:

When windows loads and I look in My Computer directory, I have my
drive F: back.

I haven't connected back my old drive C: yet. So how do I reconcile
the name of the drive with both the start up and windows?


does this thing have an old recovery partition??
try this, start, run, compmgmt.msc /s , that gets you into computer
management, goto disk management and tell me what you see there
you should see disk0 and any partitions, then the CD-ROM, dvd,etc,


Clark...
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Don't you have Google in your part of the world?


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