More thoughts on drive letters

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Al Christoph

Here is what I started with:
C: - Win ME
D: - CD-ROM
E-G: Various
H: - Win XP

Then I fell in love with Virtual PC 2004 and decided to upgrade. Switched
mother board vendors and processors.

On boot what I got was
C: - Win ME
D-F: - Various
G: - Win XP
H: - CD-ROM

UGH! None of the suggestions i've seen here could work because they involve
making windows work. And as soon as Win XP got started under these
circumstanes it blue screened and rebooted itself.

The BIOS dispite lots of looking had no way I could see to handle this.
(Intel's Motherboard.)

So, I did a variety of things (not of particular interest here) and ended up
having to let H: get reinstalled - no loss of software soooo far. Of course
the drivers for the ethernet connection weren't there so I ended up having
to do a phone Good House Keeping Seal of Approval (I can't think of that
silly thing that keeps us sort of honest at this late hour.) UGH!

Besides putting the original pieces back in the box, is there anything i
could have done to get around this?

Regards,
Al
 
If none of the suggestions you've seen here will help, why ask your question here?
You need help with Virtual PC 2004 and this is a Windows XP Group
Jef

----- Al Christoph wrote: ----

Here is what I started with
C: - Win M
D: - CD-RO
E-G: Variou
H: - Win X

Then I fell in love with Virtual PC 2004 and decided to upgrade. Switche
mother board vendors and processors

On boot what I got wa
C: - Win M
D-F: - Variou
G: - Win X
H: - CD-RO

UGH! None of the suggestions i've seen here could work because they involv
making windows work. And as soon as Win XP got started under thes
circumstanes it blue screened and rebooted itself

The BIOS dispite lots of looking had no way I could see to handle this
(Intel's Motherboard.

So, I did a variety of things (not of particular interest here) and ended u
having to let H: get reinstalled - no loss of software soooo far. Of cours
the drivers for the ethernet connection weren't there so I ended up havin
to do a phone Good House Keeping Seal of Approval (I can't think of tha
silly thing that keeps us sort of honest at this late hour.) UGH

Besides putting the original pieces back in the box, is there anything
could have done to get around this

Regards
A
 
Sorry Jeff, to have communicated so poorly on my part. Virtual PC was the
excuse for a major overhaul of my hardware. It had nothing to do with the
problem.

The problem was that a change in BIOS manufacturer did the following:
1) Completely rearranged my drives.
2) Gave the drive with the WinXP system the wrong letter.
3) When WinXP booted in ANY mode it quickly rebooted itself with a blue
screen of death passing by quickly.

So the question remains, is there a tool that outside of the BIOS and WinXP
would have allowed me to relabel the drives?

Regards,
Al
 
What you see as drive letters in DOS does not really reflect what XP will
use, so if you can't get into XP, how would you know how XP had arranged the
drive letters for its own use?

Or am I missing something?

Have you tried a repair install of XP?
 
After changing Motherboards, you have to do a reapir install of Windows XP.
Then, after XP boots, you will have to install the drivers for your new
motherboard.

steve
 
There is a utility in XP that you can use to reassign drive letters if you
want to. However I had a problem after doing so that was not resolved after
4 hours on the phone with MS help people. The case was closed as unresolved.
Since remapping the drive letters for my hard drive partitions, I could not
access my digital camera. The OpSys seemed to remember some characteristics
of the previous assignment and would not use a now-unassigned letter
correctly for the camera.
I have never been able to use the camera with that particular machine again.
Hugh
 
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