Registry editor to replace all C:\ entries with F:\

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Can anyone suggest anything to do this?
Regards
Margaret

I expect you may be able to find something to do this, but I believe there
would be other parts of the registry not pointing where they should - I'm
assuming that for some reason your hard disk letter has changed or similar.
If you have to make such a change you should re-install Windows, as many
references to the hard disk use a different terminology.

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Registry Search & Replcae programcan do this.
But you should be sure what you're doing and perviously make an image of
your c: partition, "just in case"

Don't know where the tool came from, but know it exists and works well
 
Can anyone suggest anything to do this?
Regards

Margaret

Thank you for the suggestions. A number of you were curious about why I
want to do this.
Well I have 2 hard drives,C & F. I have copied my windows XP system
from C to F to use F as a backup. I boot with GAG boot manager but when
I run F, all shortcuts point at C and all registry entries refer to C.
The drives are thus not independent and if C fails F will not run.

Margaret
 
Thank you for the suggestions. A number of you were curious about why I
want to do this.
Well I have 2 hard drives,C & F. I have copied my windows XP system
from C to F to use F as a backup. I boot with GAG boot manager but when
I run F, all shortcuts point at C and all registry entries refer to C.
The drives are thus not independent and if C fails F will not run.

Here's the way I do it. The bootable cloned backup drive is installed
using a second drive cable as a secondary master. If I want to use it,
I enter the BIOS setup during bootup and select HDD1 (the secondary
master) as the first boot device. The machine then boots up with it as
drive C: and the primary master winds up having drive letter E: (in my
case where D: is a CD ROM drive).

I can then XXCLONE C: to E: to effect a RESTORE of my primary master
drive. In my case, I don't leave the secondary master electrically
connected to the PC during normal use of the mcahine since it could
get infested with malicious code. It should be arranged as removeable
media via a drive tray arrangement for safe keeping.

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Well I have 2 hard drives,C & F. I have copied my windows XP system
from C to F to use F as a backup. I boot with GAG boot manager but when
I run F, all shortcuts point at C and all registry entries refer to C.
The drives are thus not independent and if C fails F will not run.

If C fails you'll no longer have a C drive. (The drive letters aren't
hard-coded into the drives, they're assigned by the computer during
boot-up.) Depending on what partitions you have where, and which
drives are connected where, F may become E when C fails. Or it might
not be bootable until you move it - causing it to become C.

Just changing all references in the registry files in F from "C:" to
"F:" won't fix it. And in which files are you going to make the
changes? Registry editors edit the registry as it currently sits - in
your case, from the registry files (there's more than 1) on your C
drive. You'll have to edit the files on the F drive themselves, not
the registry, if you want the registry to point to a different if
booted from that drive.

Your best course of action, should the C drive fail, is to plug the F
drive into the C drive's old connector (and set the jumpers the same -
master, slave or cable), so the drive boots as the C drive.

Of course you have to remember to back up every save to the C drive to
the F drive as well. Every time. Putting in a RAID controller, and
using the "F" drive as the backup drive eliminates all these problems.
If the C drive fails, the spare C drive is used. Every save to C goes
to "spare C" as well.
 
Margaret

Thank you all for the information. I won't waste any more time on the
Registry now.
Margsret
And just when I was about to suggest a way to do it:

Export the registry to a text file, make your changes in an editor and
re-import.
 
And just when I was about to suggest a way to do it:

Export the registry to a text file, make your changes in an editor and
re-import.

That would do what Margaret asked for, but what she asked for isn't
what she wants. :)
 
On Wed 26 Oct 2005 10:51:48, Roger Hunt wrote:
Registrar Lite was free, and very useful. Has a replace
function.


'Registrar Lite' by Resplendence is still freeware.

I use it and IMHO it is an outstanding registry editor.
Solid. Fast searching capability. Goto. Replace. Etc, etc,
Far superior to Windows Regedit.exe.

http://www.resplendence.com/downloads

The other program by Resplendence is 'Resplendent Registrar' (or
'Registrar registry manager') and it costs almost 45 Euros.
 
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