Boot drive letter was re-assigned?

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

XPsp2

I was working on a machine with 5 harddrives and needed to sort out which
drive was which...
so I disconnected on drive at a time and booted up the machine.
At one time I disconnected the boot drive itself and of course got the
"non-system disc" error.

However when I replaced it I kept getting the same error message...
so I booted from the XP cd to have a look at things from the repair
console.

I saw the former C: drive was now listed as F:

so I decided to turn off the machine and disconnect all drives but the
boot
drive.

The machine then booted up normally and when I re-connected all other
drives...
there were no further problems.

Just wondering how in the heck the boot drive got re-assinged.


I just got done telling the owner that that could not happen !!!!

This could happen if your active partition (the one that carries
ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini) is not the same as your system
partition (the one that carries the Windows folder). If you have
ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini stored on several partitions then
things can really get confusing.

 

[philo]

XPsp2

I was working on a machine with 5 harddrives and needed to sort out which
drive was which...
so I disconnected on drive at a time and booted up the machine.
At one time I disconnected the boot drive itself and of course got the
"non-system disc" error.

However when I replaced it I kept getting the same error message...
so I booted from the XP cd to have a look at things from the repair console.

I saw the former C: drive was now listed as F:

so I decided to turn off the machine and disconnect all drives but the boot
drive.

The machine then booted up normally and when I re-connected all other
drives...
there were no further problems.

Just wondering how in the heck the boot drive got re-assinged.


I just got done telling the owner that that could not happen !!!!

 

[Guest]

I have this problem too. My C drive has been re-assigned - I have no floppy
drive and NTLDR is missing. When I try to copy, I am denied access. Please,
any ideas. I hope I don't have to reformat. Running XPx2 Windows Media (on
laptop). THanks in adavance.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You need to report the recent history of this machine, i.e.
what happened to it just before this problem became
apparent. You also need to explain what exactly you
mean with "When I try to copy, I am denied access".

 

[philo]

This could happen if your active partition (the one that carries
ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini) is not the same as your system
partition (the one that carries the Windows folder). If you have
ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini stored on several partitions then
things can really get confusing.

The way the machine is setup...

the "boot drive" , C:
and the system drive, D: are both on the same physical harddrive...
all the other harddrives drives contain nothing but data...so still I am
confused as to why that happened