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Drive not recognized, wrongly renamed.
Yesterday I cleaned my hard drive (C) and installed new MSWindows XP Pro on the drive. Afterwords the drive came up as drive G - not C and subsequently many of my programs will not install most importantly my printer program appparently because it is looking for drive C. Help? Changed operating system disk - bought new one - because computer would not recognize my earlier version of Windows XP Pro. The hard drive is 40 gigs and the RAM is 1 gig.
When I checked device manager I saw that two usb drives were named ahead of the former c drive one usb being named C and the other D. Additionally CD and DVD drives were incorrectly renamed - one named E which had been D and one named F which had been E. The usb port with my WD Passport (40 gig) was named H and it came up0 correctly after the reinstall as H.
When I checked device manager I saw that two usb drives were named ahead of the former c drive one usb being named C and the other D. Additionally CD and DVD drives were incorrectly renamed - one named E which had been D and one named F which had been E. The usb port with my WD Passport (40 gig) was named H and it came up0 correctly after the reinstall as H.
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How do I determine if the registry keys are calling my boot drive G instead of C? If this is the case can I change the registry entry to C instead of G?
The simple way to look at the impact of a drive letter change is under the "Advanced" tab of System Properties. Click on Environment Variables: they will probably refer to G:
As far as the registry is concerned, you are talking about possibly hundreds of entries, depending on the history of the system and the number of applications installed. I haven't found a registry manager that is capable of correcting wrong entries in any significant manner.
I would run the O/S and see if there are problems. If so, do a "REPAIR" install from the CD which will leave most of the system untouched except for third-party drivers, SP2, updates and patches. Or, since you leave the impression that you just did a fresh install on 3/1/07, just redo it as Terry suggests.
As far as the registry is concerned, you are talking about possibly hundreds of entries, depending on the history of the system and the number of applications installed. I haven't found a registry manager that is capable of correcting wrong entries in any significant manner.
I would run the O/S and see if there are problems. If so, do a "REPAIR" install from the CD which will leave most of the system untouched except for third-party drivers, SP2, updates and patches. Or, since you leave the impression that you just did a fresh install on 3/1/07, just redo it as Terry suggests.
As Calmar said enviroment variables are one thing. Registry, there could be hundreds, possibly thousands of entries that could refer to g:\ instead of c:\ depending on what you installed after base XP.
Even XP itself will refer to C: or G: only the boot loader refers to a physical device, After that it's pretty much drive letter.
But to answer the question you asked,
click on start, then run and type regedit
Then hit enter
Then in the regedit screen make sure that "My Computer" is highlighted. (It might start from the last reg change you made)
Then click on Edit then find and in the box it pops up type in G:\
Make sure all the "look at" check boxes are checked/ticked
Then hit enter.
Terry
Even XP itself will refer to C: or G: only the boot loader refers to a physical device, After that it's pretty much drive letter.
But to answer the question you asked,
click on start, then run and type regedit
Then hit enter
Then in the regedit screen make sure that "My Computer" is highlighted. (It might start from the last reg change you made)
Then click on Edit then find and in the box it pops up type in G:\
Make sure all the "look at" check boxes are checked/ticked
Then hit enter.
Terry
sorry should have been
click on start, then run and type regedit.exe
click on start, then run and type regedit.exe
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Thanks to all respondants for your recommendations. However, as I had hoped to avoid when posting the question, I ended up wiping the drive and I reinstalled the operating system. I have reinstalled much of the software and the operating system works. However I now have a couple of other problems which I recently posted in an effort to get expert help in resolving.
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Finally, my system appears to be working well. To remedy the other problems I learned that I had to remove IE 7 which had been uploaded as an update to IE 6. After the removal I was left with IE 6. So far, so good.
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It is my belief that, if you remove the USB drives, your XP partition will revert to C: and the CD and DVD drives will become D: and E:. Reinserting the USB drives in the proper order should then relabel them F:, G:, and H:.
The only remaining question is whether you need to do a new, clean, install of XP since the registry keys may all refer to G:.