Acronis Rescue Media

[John Robbins]

Yesterday I made a change in the XP registry,(changed the drive letter)backed it up before the change.Rebooted the computer,but I wasn't able to log in.Windows will advance up tp a point and stop right before the log on screen.
I used the "Acronis BootableRescue Media"which was made a few hours earlier.Same thing no help at all.
I couldn't log into safe mode either.Any ideas?.BTW,I did a fresh installation,

 

[John John - MVP]

Yesterday I made a change in the XP registry,(changed the drive
letter)backed it up before the change.Rebooted the computer,but I wasn't
able to log in.Windows will advance up tp a point and stop right before
the log on screen.
I used the "Acronis BootableRescue Media"which was made a few hours
earlier.Same thing no help at all.
I couldn't log into safe mode either.Any ideas?.BTW,I did a fresh
installation,

What do you mean "I did a fresh installation"? What is a 'fresh
installation"? You did this 'fresh installation' when?

If your computer has a floppy drive boot the machine with a Windows 9x
startup diskette and issue the FDISK /MBR. If the machine doesn't have
a floppy drive you need to remotely access the registry and undo the
drive letter changes that you made earlier, read here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249321
Unable to log on if the boot partition drive letter has changed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/
How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows

http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm

John