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drive letter change?

Author
18 Mar 2005 6:10 PM
RJ
is there any way the drive letters for the boot and system partitions be
changed? after a recent repair of my win2003 installation, the default drive
C: on which win98 was installed turned into D: and the previous drive F: on
which win2003 was installed is now drive C:. All My win2003 programs have
stopped working.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Author
19 Mar 2005 4:19 AM
Dave Patrick
This article may help but only to the point of restoring drive letters. If
the system partition has changed then you have greater problems and we'll
need all of the details of what has happened.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/EN-US/

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"RJ" wrote:
| is there any way the drive letters for the boot and system partitions be
| changed? after a recent repair of my win2003 installation, the default
drive
| C: on which win98 was installed turned into D: and the previous drive F:
on
| which win2003 was installed is now drive C:. All My win2003 programs have
| stopped working.
|
| Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
|
|
|
Author
19 Mar 2005 8:41 AM
RJ
"Dave Patrick" <mail@Nospam.DSPatrick.com> wrote:
>This article may help but only to the point of restoring drive letters. If
>the system partition has changed then you have greater problems and we'll
>need all of the details of what has happened.
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/EN-US/
>


It worked.. thanks.  But all my installed programs still point to the
wrong locations. How do I change the path for the variable definining
Program Files and the Windows directory?

Thanks
Author
20 Mar 2005 3:48 AM
Dave Patrick
From a command prompt;

echo %systemroot%
echo %programfiles%

What is the result?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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"RJ" wrote:
| It worked.. thanks.  But all my installed programs still point to the
| wrong locations. How do I change the path for the variable definining
| Program Files and the Windows directory?
|
| Thanks