apropos

[reader]

I am in the midst of sorting out the famous

"Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed"
[Q249321]

problem, which up until an hour ago I did not know existed.

One of the ways of dealing with this problem that I have seen
mentioned is to do an In-Place Windows Upgrade, and at the tail-end of
the description of what an In-Place Upgrade does and does not do, it
says this:

"Reenumerates and changes drive letters, based on the current drives and
partitions that are seen during the in-place upgrade and on the rules
that are documented in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:

234048 How Windows 2000 assigns, reserves, and stores drive letters"

My question is, is there any way I can get Windows2000 to
do this enumerating and assigning of drive letters "based in the current
drives and partitions" without doing an In-Place Upgrade?

Thank you.

Reader

 

[Steve]

You could try editing the boot.ini file arc path to point to the new boot
partition
some resources

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q102873

http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/315/13/3.html

http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/install/bootini.htm

You will need to create a boot disk using ntfspro to mount the ntfs drive
first
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml

Or you could try performing a parallel install and boot into that and repair
the arc path that way here is a link on completing this for a stop error
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q294/7/28.ASP&NoWebContent=1



hth
rgds
Steve

 

[student]

Thanks, I'll try that and report back.

I am amazed anyone replied.

The subject was supposed to say "apropos Q249321"!

Bill

You could try editing the boot.ini file arc path to point to the new boot
partition
some resources

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q102873

http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/315/13/3.html

http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/install/bootini.htm

You will need to create a boot disk using ntfspro to mount the ntfs drive
first
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml

Or you could try performing a parallel install and boot into that and repair
the arc path that way here is a link on completing this for a stop error
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q294/7/28.ASP&NoWebContent=1



hth
rgds
Steve

I am in the midst of sorting out the famous

"Unable to Log on if the Boot Partition Drive Letter Has Changed"
[Q249321]

problem, which up until an hour ago I did not know existed.

One of the ways of dealing with this problem that I have seen
mentioned is to do an In-Place Windows Upgrade, and at the tail-end of
the description of what an In-Place Upgrade does and does not do, it
says this:

"Reenumerates and changes drive letters, based on the current drives and
partitions that are seen during the in-place upgrade and on the rules
that are documented in the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:

234048 How Windows 2000 assigns, reserves, and stores drive letters"

My question is, is there any way I can get Windows2000 to
do this enumerating and assigning of drive letters "based in the current
drives and partitions" without doing an In-Place Upgrade?

Thank you.

Reader