Drive Letter Change

[Gerald Ross]

Another fine mess! Running XP Home. Got the bright idea of
deleting the useless hidden "restore" partition, adding it
to C:. Changed the boot.ini to reflect only 2 partitions.
Windows died. Finally got it repaired and running, but now
what was C: drive is L:. There is no C: drive. all my
programs are there but the pointers are all for C: so they
are useless. Windows says I can't change the boot drive letter.
Am I stuck with re installing everything so it will be happy
on drive L:? Right now Windows XP is the only thing that
runs, and ever it is not too happy at times.
--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

Socialism is the equal distribution of
poverty.

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

How did you convince yourself to do something so stupid?

It's really quite a useful lesson you can impart to us.

What made you think that "restore" partition was "useless"?

DSH

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

Do you think you ACTUALLY knew what you were doing when you deleted that
"restore" partition [your terminology] without considering the consequences?

And EVERYTHING is back to NORMAL now -- no glitches, no delays, no hiccups?

DSH

 

[Gerald Ross]

I would never restore it back like it was when I bought it.
If I was that desperate I would format and Install windows
from a CD and set it up again.

I have recovered all the programs by making a new C: drive
and copying everything over to it except the windows files.
They will live on drive L: henceforth.

How did you convince yourself to do something so stupid?

It's really quite a useful lesson you can impart to us.

What made you think that "restore" partition was "useless"?

DSH

Cochran, GA

Socialism is the equal distribution of
poverty.