Correct drive letter after an image restore?

[Guest Sven Berg]

After I restored an partition image of NT onto a new PC, the restored

system assignes a different drive letter to itself than originally. As

a consequence, its boot process does not even procede to the desktop

display. Unfortunately, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188 applies

only to w2k or later. Now, what can i do to get NT back to the

original letter? Possible registry changes by regdt32 would not be a

problem. Thanks, Sven

[Guest John John]

Re: Correct drive letter after an image restore?

 

That information is held in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SYSTEM \DISK key and

it is applied based on disk signatures. Boot with a Windows 98 setup

floppy and issue:

 

fdisk /mbr

 

This will rewrite the disk signature and when you reboot NT4 should

reenumerate the partitions because the disk signature will be different.

 

John

 

Sven Berg wrote:

> After I restored an partition image of NT onto a new PC, the restored

> system assignes a different drive letter to itself than originally. As

> a consequence, its boot process does not even procede to the desktop

> display. Unfortunately, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188 applies

> only to w2k or later. Now, what can i do to get NT back to the

> original letter? Possible registry changes by regdt32 would not be a

> problem. Thanks, Sven

>