system drive change?

[r0nbo]

How do I change what System Restore sees as the system drive? I put in a
bigger drive last week but today am getting BSOD today and system restore
wont work. For some reason it sees the old drive which is G: now as still
the system drive and not the C; drive that everything is booting from. I am
running safe mode just to keep things going right now.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

You need to sort out the BSOD first.

You are unlikely to be able to be able to change the drive
lettering for the system drive / partition from G. To try to do
so destroys all your registry links. The only way to change
the situation is do a clean install of Windows XP. You have
to back up every data file, reinstall every programme and
locate the software disks and latest drivers for every item
of hardware. Best to leave your system drive as G.

Can you provide a copy of the Stop Error Report?

Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should
help by allowing time to write down the STOP code properly.
Keep pressing the F8 key during StartUp and select option
- Disable automatic restart on system failure.

Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until
you have resolved the problem. Check for variants of the
Stop Error message.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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[Gerry Cornell]

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._299217d6-98d1-4d1d-8068-883e89933845.xml.asp
if link broken try
http://snipurl.com/l6o7

naiav5x.sys -this file ,which seems to be the cause of the
problem would be appear to relate to a McAfee product.
What McAfee product was or is installed? How was it
removed, if it was?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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[r0nbo]

Yes I found out that its some mcafee thing and have been trying to muddle
through their tech support crap to rectify it. Time will tell. Why did it
wait till this afternoon to start this stuff when it had been running fine
for days after I installed the new drive? Virus scan comes up with nothing.
I need to sit and hit F8 when I turn it on and tell it to start in the last
known good setting or something and when it starts if graciously recoginizes
the new drive and tells me so. I will keep hacking away till I fix it or
get mad and rip the new drive back out.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

You might use Autoruns to see where McAfee try to start from.

You will need to consider careful how to remove it. It depends
entirely where the start up is to be removed.

Autoruns is a programme, which list everything starting and
where it starts from.Try downloading and installing:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html

You can save the output of the Everything tab to a txt file.
Place the cursor on any item in the list and it gives a save
as option on the File drop down. Post a copy of suspect
entries giving details of the start location.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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[r0nbo]

I had an older version of this somewhere and didnt know it till I made
shortcut for Autoruns. Anyway it said all this stuff is starting C like it
should. I went to McAfee and got their trouble shooter program and I may
have to uninstall and reinstall the thing tomorrow. Im not gonna mess with
it tonite. Its 9pm here and you should be in bed across the ocean when
the sun comes up I will worry about it some more. Thanks for the replies
mate.

 

[r0nbo]

Ok I slept a few hours and the sun is almost coming up so its back to work
at the kitchen table heh. Following links I uninstalled McAfee and
reinstalled it from my account with them and it hasnt BS on me yet but the
morning is young. Time will tell. I do see that it put the old version of
security center on here that I had before some bogus upgrade they were
foisting on us. It was a major PITA getting that thing configured and I wont
do it again although I had it running for months without major problems. I
use Zonealarm for the firewall and it did say the newer security center
doesnt like it but I did get it to work anyway. Nevertheless the old one is
back on here now and I think it will stay. I still havent found a way to
move the system drive status to C from the old drive at G. I will pull the
plug on G sometime when Im adventurous and see what happens.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

I will pull the plug on G sometime when Im adventurous
and see what happens.

Not a good move. It would make more sense to backup
and do a new install having sorted out the hardware.

What can be seen in Disk Management?

When you put in your new drive did you remove your
original disk and put in your new one where your old one
as or did you put it in the second slot as a slave?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[r0nbo]

This computer uses cable select so I put the new drive in the secondary
position to copy the old drive over with the Seagate software. then I
swapped the drives on the cable so the new one was the master drive. I
should have done it from safe mode but I didnt know any better.