changing boot drive letter???
From: Miguel Benitez (umc@fone.net)
Date: 12/31/02
From: "Miguel Benitez" <umc@fone.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:14:26 -0800
Where did you change the drive letter? Does it get to the
login screen but come back with 'access denied'? If your
boot partition is ntfs I think the only thing you will be
able to change in fdisk is if the primary partition is
marked active or not. Did you put the winnt directory on
the primary partition?
Miguel
>-----Original Message-----
>can someone help me???.... i can't log in... because i
>changed the drive letter.. although i've read the
>knowledge base and still can't get threw it... can't i
use
>the fdisk /mbr???... help
>.
>
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