Re: Boot Disk Problem - Please Help

From: Henry Craven (IUnknown_at_Dot.Nyet)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:35:13 +1000

Are they different Drives ?
Checked the Boot drive order in the BIOS ?
Checked the Order on the Cable / Jumper settings ?
If same Drive Did you mess with the Active partition ?
What have you been messing with :-) 

-- 
Henry Craven {SBS-MVP}
    Melbourne Australia
"Dave" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:13d301c4a378$a85062e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> OK this is my problem, when I go to boot up I get a
> screen with an error message stating that "Windows could
> not start because of a computer hardware configuration
> problem."
> I have since found that what used to be my C drive (boot
> drive) is now labelled D and my D drive is now C, hence
> it will not boot.
> How do I change the D drive back to C drive or change the
> boot file to D instead of C so it will boot.
> Thank you in advance for all your assistance.

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