Re: PE drive letter

From: WM (newsgroups_at_getwired.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:37:36 -0600

You cannot modify it.

In previous WinPE incarnations, the drive letter was unpredictable, but
would generally be the highest drive letter after all hard disk partitions
had been enumerated. WinPE from RIS always used X: previously.

With Windows XP SP2, and all versions of WinPE forward, WinPE will always
have the drive letter X:, regardless of partitions on the system, and
regardless of how it was booted. Note that since any letters you assign
during WinPE don't stick into any other Windows install, this is generally
of little consequence, other than providing a predictable drive letter in
WinPE - handy if you're doing scripting.

Hope that helps.

"slothworld" <slothworld@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:27EE996F-0DCD-449F-880A-77B9377C1502@microsoft.com...
>I have built a XP SP2 PE cd. When I boot off this cd, PE runs from the X:
> drive (e.g....X:\system32\) I have other scripts, that I can not change,
> that
> need to use the X: drive. How do I change the drive letter PE boots up
> on??
>
> Thank you

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