System Files are not on "C" drive

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Bob Oliver

After a clean install of WinXPSP2, I somehow managed to get system files on
partition "H" rather than "C". "C" is now my data file partition. This
appears to be causing problems with programs and utilities that expect "C" to
be the system.
Is it possible to correct this? and if so what is the procedure? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
 
See your second post on the same subject.


"Bob Oliver" <BobOliver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After a clean install of WinXPSP2, I somehow managed to get system files
> on
> partition "H" rather than "C". "C" is now my data file partition. This
> appears to be causing problems with programs and utilities that expect "C"
> to
> be the system.
> Is it possible to correct this? and if so what is the procedure? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
 
Bob Oliver <BobOliver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>After a clean install of WinXPSP2, I somehow managed to get system files on
>partition "H" rather than "C". "C" is now my data file partition. This
>appears to be causing problems with programs and utilities that expect "C" to
>be the system.
>Is it possible to correct this? and if so what is the procedure? Any help
>would be greatly appreciated.


I just had the exact same problem as you, the only thing that I could
do, after reading mounts of helppages, was to disconnect all
harddrives except the bootdrive, run winxpsetup from the boot-cd, and
create only one partition were the OS should go.
There seems to be another way thru tinkering with the registry to
rename a system drive, but success is not guaranteed, and might screw
up things to no end.
 
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