Fiddling around with nLite and XPLite my nephew came up with a very small
Windows XP Pro installation for an older laptop and it runs surprisingly
fast and well.

Except there is no Disk Management in the MMC tree under Storage.

This does not affect working at all but can one change the drive letter of
the optical drive without this MMC snap-in?

Or is there a way to reinstall this snap-in and get it working? We did try
copying the diskmgmt.msc executable from another PC but it said the snap-in
could not be started. Needless to say, the Logical Disk Manager entries do
not show in services.

Regards and TIA.

Alpha
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Alpha wrote:
> Fiddling around with nLite and XPLite my nephew came up with a very small
> Windows XP Pro installation for an older laptop and it runs surprisingly
> fast and well.
>
> Except there is no Disk Management in the MMC tree under Storage.
>
> This does not affect working at all but can one change the drive letter of
> the optical drive without this MMC snap-in?

Yes, you can use the Diskpart or Mountvol commands at the command prompt
or you can change it at the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices key.


> Or is there a way to reinstall this snap-in and get it working?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
Download details: Microsoft Management Console 3.0 for Windows XP (KB907265)

John

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"John John - MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Alpha wrote:
>> Fiddling around with nLite and XPLite my nephew came up with a very small
>> Windows XP Pro installation for an older laptop and it runs surprisingly
>> fast and well.
>>
>> Except there is no Disk Management in the MMC tree under Storage.
>>
>> This does not affect working at all but can one change the drive letter
>> of
>> the optical drive without this MMC snap-in?
>
> Yes, you can use the Diskpart or Mountvol commands at the command prompt
> or you can change it at the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices key.
>
>
>> Or is there a way to reinstall this snap-in and get it working?
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
> Download details: Microsoft Management Console 3.0 for Windows XP
> (KB907265)
>
> John


Perfect. Thanks very much, John.
Greatly appreciated.
Regards.
Alpha
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Alpha wrote:
> My response at bottom:
> "John John - MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Alpha wrote:
>>> Fiddling around with nLite and XPLite my nephew came up with a very small
>>> Windows XP Pro installation for an older laptop and it runs surprisingly
>>> fast and well.
>>>
>>> Except there is no Disk Management in the MMC tree under Storage.
>>>
>>> This does not affect working at all but can one change the drive letter
>>> of
>>> the optical drive without this MMC snap-in?
>> Yes, you can use the Diskpart or Mountvol commands at the command prompt
>> or you can change it at the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices key.
>>
>>
>>> Or is there a way to reinstall this snap-in and get it working?
>> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
>> Download details: Microsoft Management Console 3.0 for Windows XP
>> (KB907265)
>>
>> John
>
>
> Perfect. Thanks very much, John.
> Greatly appreciated.
> Regards.
> Alpha
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You're welcome.

John