did an insane thing-comp trying to boot to D: which has no OS

[Lyn]

Hi;
I did an insane thing, and only a Pro will be able to help me out with this
doozey!
Here are my details.
I have 3 P4 networked computers, all running WinXP.
On one, I put a dual boot with WinXP Pro & Home.
Home was on C: drive and Pro was on D: drive.
I got rid of Home, and in the boot.ini I deleted the reference to booting to
C: Home, so that Pro would just quickly boot up D: Pro.
Fine & Dandy.
But then, I decided I wanted Pro to have the C: drive letter. So I went into
regedit and set the permissions and changed the drive Letter to C:
However! I forgot to change the boot.ini back to C:
Now I cannot access Pro, because the comp. is trying to boot to D: which has
no OS -but WinXP will not reinstall on it either.
Any suggestions would be welcome for sure, as you can well imagine.
Lyn
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[Rich Barry]

Lyn, you could try using the Recovery Console and from the command
prompt use the command Bootcfg /scan and
Bootcfg /rebuild. Set your cdrom drive as first boot device in Bios.
Check here for more info
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314058