Undo System Drive Letter change

[Guest]

I changed the drive letter of my System/Boot Drive...HUGE
mistake I know! I
went into the Registry and changed it using this key
value..
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and then changing
\DosDevices\e: to
\DosDevices\c: I found all this info on the Microsoft
site's Knowledge base
Article 223188

Trouble is, now the machine won't start Windows! Surely
there must to a way
to sort this out??

Just to make things worse, Dell swapped my DVD/CDRW fixed
bay drive with
MEDIA Bay drive...so when I try to BOOT FROM CD ROM it
doesn't! I even
tried to switch it to boot from removable media and that
doesn't work
either!

I tried ringing Dell Software Support in the UK and they
said I'd have to
stay on hold for an LEAST an hour! I don't mind paying
the 20 quid but dot
want to stay on the phone for more than an hour!

You guys are my ONLY hope...Please help!!

P.S. OBVIOUSLY I dot want to have to format the
drive...maybe, if I HAVE to
do in clean install I could install to c:\windows2
perhaps?? Don't
know...I'm an entertainer!

 

[Guest]

You have time to do a clean install but you won't stay on
the phone for an hour? I suggest that you try a little
patience.

 

[Guest]

Well, as my old Mum says...if you can't say something
helpful, say nothing! Thanks a lot!

 

[Darrell Gorter[MSFT]]

Hello,
The first thing is that you have to be able to boot to either an OS or to
the CD.
Are you currently dual-booting or is this the only OS on the system?
If you cannot boot from the CD or from an OS, then your options are very
limited.
Is this a FAT or FAT32 drive and do you have a boot floppy?

If cannot boot from the CD you cannot run a repair,boot to recovery
console, or reinstall the OS so your option would be to remove the hard
drive and put it into another system and load the registry there to edit
the change back.

Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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| I changed the drive letter of my System/Boot Drive...HUGE
| mistake I know! I
| went into the Registry and changed it using this key
| value..
| HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices and then changing
| \DosDevices\e: to
| \DosDevices\c: I found all this info on the Microsoft
| site's Knowledge base
| Article 223188
|
| Trouble is, now the machine won't start Windows! Surely
| there must to a way
| to sort this out??
|
| Just to make things worse, Dell swapped my DVD/CDRW fixed
| bay drive with
| MEDIA Bay drive...so when I try to BOOT FROM CD ROM it
| doesn't! I even
| tried to switch it to boot from removable media and that
| doesn't work
| either!
|
| I tried ringing Dell Software Support in the UK and they
| said I'd have to
| stay on hold for an LEAST an hour! I don't mind paying
| the 20 quid but dot
| want to stay on the phone for more than an hour!
|
| You guys are my ONLY hope...Please help!!
|
| P.S. OBVIOUSLY I dot want to have to format the
| drive...maybe, if I HAVE to
| do in clean install I could install to c:\windows2
| perhaps?? Don't
| know...I'm an entertainer!
|
|
|