Drives all mess up

[niteghost]

It can be done at the BIOS or DOS level, and I am going to learn how to do it. First of all, as usual let me backup my 65 GIGs of data into an external drive before I mess around with the Boot volume, cause, I do not have room for error here. What have i got to lose, either way seems like i have to reformat and reinstall anyway.

[PIPER]

I tend to agree with efc....it can be done with the xp cd if you don't have a win 98 boot disk.

[niteghost]

I am going to try this, before I do another reformat and reinstall. One guy at another forum, have the same situation and did it successfully. Just want to share with U guys or another person runs into the same Problem the next time.

Hre is it :

Forgot exactly where I googled this from, but it worked for me in the same circumstances:

This procedure swaps drive letters for drives C and D. If you do not need to swap drive letters, simply name the \DosDevice\letter: value to any new drive letter not in use.
1. Make a full system backup of the computer and system state.

2. Log on as an Administrator.

3. Start Regedt32.exe.

4. Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices key.

5. Click MountedDevices. On the Security menu, click Permissions. Check to make sure Administrators have full control. Change this back when you are finished with these steps.

6. Quit Regedt32 and start Regedit.exe Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices key.

7. Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for "\DosDevices\C:".

8. Right-click \DosDevices\C:, and then click Rename.

9. Rename it to an unused drive letter "\DosDevices\Z:". (This will free up drive letter C: to be used later.)

10. Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for "\DosDevices\D:".

11. Right-click \DosDevices\D:, and then click Rename.

12. Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter "\DosDevices\C:".

13. Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, click Rename, and name it back to "\DosDevices\D:".

14. Quit Regedit and start Regedt32.

15. Change the permissions back to the previous setting for Administrators (this should probably be Read Only).

16. Restart the computer.


Just my way of saying thanks - niteghost