Drive letter changed after restoring partition image

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Sven Berg - 15 Jul 2007 19:15 GMT

A Windows 2000 system was on my old PC on the first partition of my
second harddisk. It was assigned drive letter D. After I restored a
partition image of it on a new PC, the boot process of the restored
system searches for files on E (for example winlogon.exe), then
declares E for locked and then halts unfinished. So I guess, restored
w2k assignes driver letter E to itself.

Is there a way to get the restored system to identify itself as D? If
a registry hack helped, I might do it from a parallel OS by regedt32.

Thanks for advice, Sven

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John John - 15 Jul 2007 19:56 GMT

How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/

John

> A Windows 2000 system was on my old PC on the first partition of my
> second harddisk. It was assigned drive letter D. After I restored a
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> Thanks for advice, Sven

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philo - 16 Jul 2007 20:48 GMT

> A Windows 2000 system was on my old PC on the first partition of my
> second harddisk. It was assigned drive letter D. After I restored a
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> Thanks for advice, Sven

That won't work for several reasons:

1) your boot files will always be on the primary partition (C:) even if
win2k is installed on another drive.

2) restoring an image for use on another machine is unlikely to work due to
the different hardware.

You'll save a lot of time by juts performing a fresh install on your new
machine

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