change drive letter reg hack not working

[Mort]

Hey all

Am having an issue with a new windows install i made. The drive letter was wrong even though i took out all other drives except the boot one. for some STUPID reason it picked up the logical partition on there (my games drive) as C: before the previous active primary one

very strange

anyways i have tried the reg hack here
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=223188

it will load back into windows, then at the welcome screen just before the login box pops up it will sit there and not load any further

i got the same results using partition magics change boot drive letter feature

i dont want to reinstall, as I have got all drivered up and taken images etc, there must be a way to fix the drive letters without it breaking

any ideas?

 

[chex]

i think you might be able to do it through disk management

 

[Mort]

xp wont allow you to change the boot/system drives letter in disk management unfortunatley

 

[Mort]

anyone? in desperate need of help dudes

 

[bledd]

format, without doing that you'll have endless problems

 

[Mort]

so there is no way to achieve what i want without a format?

does nobody know what i'm talking about when i say it stops loading windows just before the login box?

 

[Shoei]

you can change the drive letter of the system disk. You need to find a copy of driveremap.exe on the citrix site.

Robb

 

[bledd]

maybe you can, but there are plenty of other dependancies that will fail, nothing checks all drivepaths and registry entries to verify them (as far as i'm aware of)

 

[Mort]

cant find driveremap.exe anywhere

ugh am having such a bad day, am ill, other partition decided to kill itself, and cant get my bkup partiton to have the right frickin drive letter lol

i dont understand why it didnt pick C: in the first place, but to not be able to change it is just annoying