Changing drive letters

[1lane]

For some reason my drive letters changed & now the computer won't boot. Is
there a way to change the letters back to the way they should be?
Thanks

[Ron Sommer]

How do you know that the drive letters have changed, If the computer won't
boot?
The drive letters are not assigned until the computer boots.
Can you boot to a floppy or CD?
--
Ronald Sommer

"1lane" > wrote in message
...
: For some reason my drive letters changed & now the computer won't boot. Is
: there a way to change the letters back to the way they should be?
: Thanks

[1lane]

I booted from CD to repair winxp. The one dialog box asked where I wanted to
install windows. The drive letters didn't correspond with the size & names of
the hard drives. I got the tdea of shutting down & unplugging all hard drives
except my bootable drive. I rebooted & it worked & am now trying to repair
windows.
Thanks

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

> How do you know that the drive letters have changed, If the computer won't
> boot?
> The drive letters are not assigned until the computer boots.
> Can you boot to a floppy or CD?
> --
> Ronald Sommer
>
> "1lane" > wrote in message
> ...
> : For some reason my drive letters changed & now the computer won't boot. Is
> : there a way to change the letters back to the way they should be?
> : Thanks
>
>

[Rock]

"1lane" wrote

>I booted from CD to repair winxp. The one dialog box asked where I wanted
>to
> install windows. The drive letters didn't correspond with the size & names
> of
> the hard drives. I got the tdea of shutting down & unplugging all hard
> drives
> except my bootable drive. I rebooted & it worked & am now trying to repair
> windows.
> Thanks
>
> "Ron Sommer" wrote:
>
>> How do you know that the drive letters have changed, If the computer
>> won't
>> boot?
>> The drive letters are not assigned until the computer boots.
>> Can you boot to a floppy or CD?
>> --
>> Ronald Sommer
>>
>> "1lane"wrote

>> : For some reason my drive letters changed & now the computer won't boot.
>> Is
>> : there a way to change the letters back to the way they should be?
>> : Thanks

You post is very unclear. Go back to the beginning and describe exactly
what the situation is. Then maybe someone here can come up with some
suggestions.

1. What is the computer's configuration: What model computer, how many
drivers, how are they connected (SATA or PATA), how are they partitioned and
what are the drive letters on a normal boot?

2. Why were you trying to repair it in the first place? What was wrong?
How were you planning on repairing it?

3. What drives and drive letters were displayed that were all wrong?

4. What did you actually disconnect and what did you boot from?

5. You said that after disconnecting everything but the boot drive it boots
ok? Is that right? So what's the problem now?

I can't say that I'll be able to help you but by providing this information
someone might.

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]

[Ghostrider]

1lane wrote:

> For some reason my drive letters changed & now the computer won't boot. Is
> there a way to change the letters back to the way they should be?
> Thanks

After reading the thread, it is probably too late to do
anything. In the attempt to repair Windows (or re-install
it) and all of the machinations related to it, the system
partition might have gotten re-lettered. This is the one
partition that cannot be re-lettered. It would be better
to wipe the entire [bootable] HD and do a clean installation,
making sure that the system drive is Drive C. This is want
you want...right?

[1lane]

It's working fine now
thanks

"Rock" wrote:

> "1lane" wrote
>
> >I booted from CD to repair winxp. The one dialog box asked where I wanted
> >to
> > install windows. The drive letters didn't correspond with the size & names
> > of
> > the hard drives. I got the tdea of shutting down & unplugging all hard
> > drives
> > except my bootable drive. I rebooted & it worked & am now trying to repair
> > windows.
> > Thanks
> >
> > "Ron Sommer" wrote:
> >
> >> How do you know that the drive letters have changed, If the computer
> >> won't
> >> boot?
> >> The drive letters are not assigned until the computer boots.
> >> Can you boot to a floppy or CD?
> >> --
> >> Ronald Sommer
> >>
> >> "1lane"wrote
>
> >> : For some reason my drive letters changed & now the computer won't boot.
> >> Is
> >> : there a way to change the letters back to the way they should be?
> >> : Thanks
>
> You post is very unclear. Go back to the beginning and describe exactly
> what the situation is. Then maybe someone here can come up with some
> suggestions.
>
> 1. What is the computer's configuration: What model computer, how many
> drivers, how are they connected (SATA or PATA), how are they partitioned and
> what are the drive letters on a normal boot?
>
> 2. Why were you trying to repair it in the first place? What was wrong?
> How were you planning on repairing it?
>
> 3. What drives and drive letters were displayed that were all wrong?
>
> 4. What did you actually disconnect and what did you boot from?
>
> 5. You said that after disconnecting everything but the boot drive it boots
> ok? Is that right? So what's the problem now?
>
> I can't say that I'll be able to help you but by providing this information
> someone might.
>
> --
> Rock [MVP - User/Shell]
>
>

[Rock]

"1lane" wrote

> It's working fine now
> thanks

<snip>

Ok, great, you mean with all drives connected the system boots and runs
fine? What was the fix?