This article may help.
Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q249/3/21.ASP
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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
"Becky" wrote:
> After a fresh 2000 install w/all updates working fine on a
> Dell 8200 w/all updates, a 40gb Western Digital HD,512 mb
> ram (rimms)
>
> I put a IBM 20gb drive (fat 32) from my other Dell to copy
> data off, Windows found the new hardware and requested a
> restart ... I did ...now it will not boot to the
> desktop... it loops at the login. I removed the IBM HD and
> it says no paging file found on your HD and continues to
> loop.
>
> How can I fix this ...I have 8 hrs on this and don't
> really want to start over.