Boot Drive Letters

[MadDog]

I added a new Hard Drive to my W2K system as Primary Slave, ghosted the Primary Master to it, activated the partition, shut down the computer, re-jumpered the drives, and rebooted. The computer came up just fine - except that the boot drive (the new one) is still "D". How do I change it to "C" ??

MD

[silencio]

Re-image it and restart with only the new drive attached. If you try to change drive letters now you'll have pagefile issues that'll prevent you from logging on or even booting.

[MadDog]

Re-image it and restart with only the new drive attached. If you try to change drive letters now you'll have pagefile issues that'll prevent you from logging on or even booting.

I'll try that when I get home tonight. Thanks.

MD

[MadDog]

Re-image it and restart with only the new drive attached. If you try to change drive letters now you'll have pagefile issues that'll prevent you from logging on or even booting.

OK, did that, and got caught in an enless loop of an error message telling me my pagefile was missing or too small, and the logon dialog.

Any other ideas ???

[NooNoo]

Run regedt32 and go to the following location:

Hkey_local_machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management

There you will find these entries:

PagingFiles:Reg_Multi_SZ:C:\pagefile.sys 190 380


TempPageFile:Reg_Dword:0x1

If the PagingFiles: entry is populated, delete the entire TempPageFile entry then reboot.

[MadDog]

Run regedt32 and go to the following location:

Hkey_local_machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management

There you will find these entries:

PagingFiles:Reg_Multi_SZ:C:\pagefile.sys 190 380


TempPageFile:Reg_Dword:0x1

If the PagingFiles: entry is populated, delete the entire TempPageFile entry then reboot.

NooNoo,
It doesn't get that far. I was caught in an endless loop of the logon dialog, and the error message.


Do I do what you say *before* I swap the drives ??

MD

[NooNoo]

You can do that I believe from recovery console

[MadDog]

You can do that I believe from recovery console

I'll try it, and post the results later.

Thanks.


MD

[FatalException0E]

This looks familiar....I just went from a 9GB system drive to a 18GB....

Easy way: (assuming you haven't wiped your old drive yet)
Wipe the new drive, then ghost the old one to the new one again. Disconnect every drive except the new one. Boot up. If everything is good, plug the old one it again and start up. Your load of Win2k on the new drive should recognize the old drive as a new device being added, and assign it a letter at the end of all others (If CD-ROM is D, new HD will be E: You can change that from disk admin)

If everything is good with just the new drive, but you have issues after putting the old one back on, make sure you have a good image on the new drive, then connect only the old one, and boot from a win9x floppy. Format the old drive, then connect the new one and boot.

[ScorpioIlya]

The reason the pagefile is griping, is because the MBR is different on the new drive. Download a windows 98 boot disk and run fdisk.exe /mbr with the new drive installed....enjoy. Note...neither fixboot, or fixmbr will work, from the recovery console..only the win 98 boot disk way, will work.

[MadDog]

The reason the pagefile is griping, is because the MBR is different on the new drive. Download a windows 98 boot disk and run fdisk.exe /mbr with the new drive installed....enjoy. Note...neither fixboot, or fixmbr will work, from the recovery console..only the win 98 boot disk way, will work.

Thanks, Scorp. Your suggestion worked perfectly...