WinXP messed up, need to reconfigure it from d: back to c:

Posted: 05-24-2004, 06:14 AM

psych0surfr

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Please help!!!

After repairing my system and reinstalling WinXP, it boots and I can
login, but the drive is on d:. There is no c: in the system. There are
no other drives or partitions (except CD burner on 2nd IDE as e

. The
desktop shortcuts also refer to d: paths. But very little of the
software actually runs.
How do I move the drive back to c:?
Once it's there, do I reinstall XP with the repair option again to fix
the paths?

Background info:
WinXP is loaded on a single drive using a single, full partition as c:
(I'll call this drive1). The system became flaky - it would reset itself
randomly. It seemed to happen when drive1 would do a recalibrate, so I
installed a new drive (drive2) and copied drive1 to it. Near the end,
but before it finished copying (I think) the system reset itself. Then
disk1 wouldn't boot. I removed and swapped things around to isolate the
problem until I finally found that it was the CPU overheating. I
replaced the CPU, put an old 5GB drive (drive3) in, reformatted and
installed a clean copy of WinXP. I used that to put drive1 in as a slave
on d:. I could see that most of the files were there, so I put drive1
back as master and removed drive3. Then I reinstalled WinXP using the
"repair existing" option (not Windows Recovery console). I don't think I
tried to repair or reinstall XP while drive1 was set up as a slave, but
at this point I can't think of any reason why this would have happened
except that.

TIA,
-Roy

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Hans-Georg Michna

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Re: WinXP messed up, need to reconfigure it from d: back to c:

Posted: 05-24-2004, 01:37 PM

psych0surfr <psych0surfr@aim.com> wrote:

>After repairing my system and reinstalling WinXP, it boots and I can
>login, but the drive is on d:. There is no c: in the system. There are
>no other drives or partitions (except CD burner on 2nd IDE as e. The
>desktop shortcuts also refer to d: paths. But very little of the
>software actually runs.
>How do I move the drive back to c:?
>Once it's there, do I reinstall XP with the repair option again to fix
>the paths?

Roy,

please have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDriveLett...mPartition.htm.

Hans-Georg

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psych0surfr

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Re: WinXP messed up, need to reconfigure it from d: back to c:

Posted: 05-25-2004, 08:03 AM

Hans-Georg Michna wrote:

> psych0surfr <psych0surfr@aim.com> wrote:
>
>
>>After repairing my system and reinstalling WinXP, it boots and I can
>>login, but the drive is on d:. There is no c: in the system. There are
>>no other drives or partitions (except CD burner on 2nd IDE as e. The
>>desktop shortcuts also refer to d: paths. But very little of the
>>software actually runs.
>>How do I move the drive back to c:?
>>Once it's there, do I reinstall XP with the repair option again to fix
>>the paths?
>
>
> Roy,
>
> please have a look at
> http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDriveLett...mPartition.htm.
>
> Hans-Georg
>

Thanks, Hans-Georg, that worked. After I swapped the drive letters, I
got back to the original non-bootable configuration on c:. Then I did a
repair install of WinXP again. I had to close an nregmp2.exe error
dialog box that said it couldn't find GetIUMS procedure in MSDART.DLL,
about 100 times. Then installation completed, the drive is on c:, and it
_appears_ that it's intact. I still have a lot more checking to do.
Anyway, thanks again!

-Roy

Hans-Georg Michna

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Re: WinXP messed up, need to reconfigure it from d: back to c:

Posted: 05-25-2004, 09:52 AM

psych0surfr <psych0surfr@aim.com> wrote:

>Hans-Georg Michna wrote:

>> please have a look at
>> http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDriveLett...mPartition.htm.

>Thanks, Hans-Georg, that worked. After I swapped the drive letters, I
>got back to the original non-bootable configuration on c:. Then I did a
>repair install of WinXP again. I had to close an nregmp2.exe error
>dialog box that said it couldn't find GetIUMS procedure in MSDART.DLL,
>about 100 times. Then installation completed, the drive is on c:, and it
>_appears_ that it's intact. I still have a lot more checking to do.
>Anyway, thanks again!

Roy,

glad it helped. I've had similar problems with the
reinstallation of XP also. Wish they would fix that.
Reinstallation is a really important feature and one that should
be a good candidate for reliability. (:-)

Hans-Georg

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