changing drive letters of system drive

[Chris W]

I had my system set up with a triple boot. With the following layout.
SCSI disk 0 partition 1: win2k fat32 drive letter C
SCSI disk 1 partition 1-3 linux linux file systems
SCSI disk 1 partition 4: win2k NTFS Drive letter M

SCSI disk was dieing so I boot into win2k on scsi disk 0 and used true
image to make an image of partition 4 of scsi disk 1 and saved it on an
ide disk I had in there. I then finaly got fixmbr to get rid of the
grub boot loader that wouldn't work because it's config data was on the
dead disk. After replacing scsi 1 with a new scsi disk I couldn't
restore the partition image I made with true image because there were
errors. I could however mount that image file as a drive letter and
coppied most of the files over the the new scsi disk 1 that I formated
with NTFS (the files that were corrupted wern't important). I changed
the boot.ini to reflect the changes in the partition from 4 to 1 on the
new scsi disk. I rebooted, picked the option to boot to the drive I
just replaced and it worked. . . well sortof. The drive letter for SCSI
disk 1 partition 1 is now K not M so some stuff doesn't work right. I
couldn't even get the administrator tools to work to try and change the
drive letter. So then I thought, what if I share that drive and then
map it as a drive and use M for the drive letter. Well that made
everything work so I ran the admin tools and was about to change the
drive letter. But now I am stuck for 2 reasons, one I can't change it
to M because that letter is maped to a "network" drive, and it just
won't let you change the drive letter of the system drive. So anyone
have any clever ideas?

--
Chris W

"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

I had my system set up with a triple boot. With the following layout.
SCSI disk 0 partition 1: win2k fat32 drive letter C
SCSI disk 1 partition 1-3 linux linux file systems
SCSI disk 1 partition 4: win2k NTFS Drive letter M

SCSI disk was dieing so I boot into win2k on scsi disk 0 and used true
image to make an image of partition 4 of scsi disk 1 and saved it on an
ide disk I had in there. I then finaly got fixmbr to get rid of the
grub boot loader that wouldn't work because it's config data was on the
dead disk. After replacing scsi 1 with a new scsi disk I couldn't
restore the partition image I made with true image because there were
errors. I could however mount that image file as a drive letter and
coppied most of the files over the the new scsi disk 1 that I formated
with NTFS (the files that were corrupted wern't important). I changed
the boot.ini to reflect the changes in the partition from 4 to 1 on the
new scsi disk. I rebooted, picked the option to boot to the drive I
just replaced and it worked. . . well sortof. The drive letter for SCSI
disk 1 partition 1 is now K not M so some stuff doesn't work right. I
couldn't even get the administrator tools to work to try and change the
drive letter. So then I thought, what if I share that drive and then
map it as a drive and use M for the drive letter. Well that made
everything work so I ran the admin tools and was about to change the
drive letter. But now I am stuck for 2 reasons, one I can't change it
to M because that letter is maped to a "network" drive, and it just
won't let you change the drive letter of the system drive. So anyone
have any clever ideas?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;223188

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team