Re: PE drive letter

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From: slothworld (slothworld_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:19:01 -0800

Yes...That does help. But not the answer I was hoping for. :-(

In my case, the best solution would be not to use PE from XP SP2. Just use a
previous version. Reason why is...that there are scripts that map drives as
the X: drive. These scripts were written by others and I can not change them.

The answer I was hoping for was..."You can change the drive letter in PE XP
SP2, but it is very tricky."
I am willing to try some complex process to make this change. I was hoping I
could build a special registry hive or boot file that could change this drive
letter to something else.

Thank you for your reply and info. Pass on more if you have any. :-)

"WM" wrote:

> 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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