>-----Original Message-----
>On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:05:59 -0700, conor wrote:
>
>> thanks Sharon ... I ran the repair as you advised and
>> looged on successfully. However the hard drive is now
>> titled D instead of C. I had to reinstall office but it
>> would work as it points to C by default when my hard
drive
>> is now named D. Any ideas on how to get XP to see it as
>> the C drive. I tried wiping the CMOS and loading the
>> defaults but to no avail.
>
>Conor, you're welcome. Did you start a new thread? It's
easier if you keep
>everything in the same thread so that all of the
information about your
>situation is "tied" together. Luckily, I hadn't purged my
newsreader yet
>and since this group isn't high volume, I was able to
find the old one:
>
>> > I moved the hard drive from one xp machine to another.
>> > When I put it back an error appears on bootup
>> > titled "Windows Product Activation". It states that "A
>> > problem is preventing windows from accurately
checking the
>> > licence for the computer. Error code 0x80090006"
>> >
>> > Any ideas on solving this one??
>
>I'm glad you were able to get XP running again on the
original system.
>You sound surprised that it is now D:... Tell me if I got
any of this
>wrong:
>
>You had XP installed (on C:?) on system #1.
>You took this hard drive out and moved it to system #2.
>(You never really mention what went on at #2 other than
the fact that #2
>also had XP installed on it)
>
>When you put the drive back on system #1, you could not
get the drive to
>boot and ran a repair install. XP now boots but the drive
letter is D:
>
>If your programs give you trouble, can you reinstall them
to the same
>folder? Do you have installation media and patches for
all of them? If this
>is workable, just leave it.
>
>XP relies more heavily on information in boot.ini that
looks like this:
>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)
>than it does on drive letters. Program might care though.
>
>The reason I say to leave it alone is because the only
way to fix the drive
>letter is to reinstall again. If you take this route, be
sure you have the
>drive jumpered correctly (you did remember to change that
again didn't
>you?) and, to be on the safe side, disconnect any
unnecessary peripheral
>drives. Zip drives especially like to grab C: before XP
can hand it to the
>hard drive.
>
>With a floppy disk, a cdrom drive and a hard drive
attached, you can get
>the basics going in XP. Then add any extra drives back
onto the setup.
>
>--
>Sharon F
>MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
>.
>Hi Sharon,
I put drive #1 into PC #2 instead of the CD Rom drive so
that I could ghost drive #1 onto drive #2. I did not
change any jumper settings. After running the repair I
took it that everything was OK until I tried accessing
Outlook. Outlook was requesting to be reinstalled. When I
put the Office XP CD into the drive it kept saying that it
could not find C. Iis there a way of getting office to
install on the D instead of the C or do I have to do a
full windows reinstallation to solve the problem?
Thanks.
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