Changing boot drive letter

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Is it possible to change the boot drive letter from c to another letter, say Z: ? I developed a remote boot XPE image but would like the main drive letter to be Z rather than C?
 
In general usage scenario it is possible read my tip about how to do this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/community/tips/xp/rtpartin/default.aspx

But since you need it for remote boot (I wanted to do that also) then answer
is no.
RAM Disk driver that is used support only one volume that is hardcoded as C:
and there is no legal way to change this :-(

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Slobodan

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William said:
Is it possible to change the boot drive letter from c to another letter,
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say Z: ? I developed a remote boot XPE image but would like the main drive
letter to be Z rather than C?
 
There is a KB article on this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223188

However, it might put your system in unstable state. So, make sure you have
the backup before you do this.
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William said:
Is it possible to change the boot drive letter from c to another letter,
Click to expand...
say Z: ? I developed a remote boot XPE image but would like the main drive
letter to be Z rather than C?
 
Hi Harsh,

Have you seen my reply to this question?
Reassigning drive letters from Target Designer is easy.
But main problem here is that William want to use remote boot from SDI file.
Now for that he need to use RAM Disk driver and this driver AFAIK is
hardcoded to expose volume C: .

Any comments on this?

Regards,
Slobodan

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Hi Slobodan,

Yes, you are right. I am sorry for the confusion. I had the similar problem
recently and I referred that KB but I did not carefully look that William
wants to use it for remote boot.

For general scenario, the KB I pointed to and your article suggest the same
thing - loading hive and changing mounteddrives regkey. But as you say, it
might be convenient to do it from TD.

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