Re: changing boot drive letter???

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 01/01/03 

From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 10:47:06 -0500

"jon" <samuelsonj@carnegiemuseums.org> wrote in message
news:00ba01c2b0e8$260c0b60$d2f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA09...
> 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

Which drive letter? The drive letter that has Windows on it? What error
message are you getting? Posting the exact word for word error message is
always a good idea when looking for tech support.

I can't guarantee this will work, but you can try editing the boot.ini file
at the root of the "boot" drive [actually I think Microsoft refers to the
boot drive as the system drive]. Alternatively, you could create a Windows
2000 boot floppy that contains a boot.ini file that points to the new drive
letter.

When doing this, you might need to search www.microsoft.com/support to learn
about ARC naming convention in the boot.ini, and also which files to copy to
make a 2000 boot disk [hint, I believe you must format the floppy on a
Windows 2000 computer and copy four files or so from the root of the boot
drive, possibly boot.ini, ntldr, ntdetect.com, etc].

This should get it so that Windows can attempt to boot from the correct
partition, although I wouldn't be surprised if you then have problems with
Windows that cannot be fixed.

Since you didn't post the error message, the stuff above might be
inappropriate, I can't tell. 

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