Help! Boot Drive Letter Has Changed!

[Adriano Baglioni]

My Windows XP system will no longer boot. I get

STOP: c0000021a {Fatal System Error}
The Session Manager Initialization system process
terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc00000034 (0x0
0x0).

I poked around with the XP CD recovery console, and
running diskpart it shows the F: drive (where Windows XP
is installed) as the "L:" drive?!?! I'm pretty sure that
all the registry paths for device drivers, config files,
etc. will no longer work, and that this is the reason I
can't boot.

Ignoring the issue of how this happened, how do I set it
back? The only way I have come up with is to do another
installation of WinXP on a different volume (say, C:, D:,
or E:), and use it to change L: to F:. Anyone have any
better suggestions?

Thanks!
Adriano

P.S. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this problem before?
Drive letters suddenly changing for no reason?

[Dolemite]

Get yourself a copy of fdisk and move your boot partition back that way.


"Adriano Baglioni" > wrote in message
...
> My Windows XP system will no longer boot. I get
>
> STOP: c0000021a {Fatal System Error}
> The Session Manager Initialization system process
> terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc00000034 (0x0
> 0x0).
>
> I poked around with the XP CD recovery console, and
> running diskpart it shows the F: drive (where Windows XP
> is installed) as the "L:" drive?!?! I'm pretty sure that
> all the registry paths for device drivers, config files,
> etc. will no longer work, and that this is the reason I
> can't boot.
>
> Ignoring the issue of how this happened, how do I set it
> back? The only way I have come up with is to do another
> installation of WinXP on a different volume (say, C:, D:,
> or E:), and use it to change L: to F:. Anyone have any
> better suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> Adriano
>
> P.S. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this problem before?
> Drive letters suddenly changing for no reason?
>

[JimW±]

XP does not use drive letters to boot
Drive letters WILL change depending on which OS (in your multi-boot) is =
running
-- your proposed solution will have no effect

Adriano Baglioni > wrote:
> My Windows XP system will no longer boot. I get
>=20
> STOP: c0000021a {Fatal System Error}
> The Session Manager Initialization system process
> terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc00000034 (0x0
> 0x0).
>=20
> I poked around with the XP CD recovery console, and
> running diskpart it shows the F: drive (where Windows XP
> is installed) as the "L:" drive?!?! I'm pretty sure that
> all the registry paths for device drivers, config files,
> etc. will no longer work, and that this is the reason I
> can't boot.
>=20
> Ignoring the issue of how this happened, how do I set it
> back? The only way I have come up with is to do another
> installation of WinXP on a different volume (say, C:, D:,
> or E:), and use it to change L: to F:. Anyone have any
> better suggestions?
>=20
> Thanks!
> Adriano
>=20
> P.S. Has anyone ever seen or heard of this problem before?
> Drive letters suddenly changing for no reason?