Correct drive letter after an image restore?

[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

 

[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
>