Comments on: Change drive letter on a boot device

By: Lemonkid

Lemonkid — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:57:38 +0000

Yep another happy googler here. I have been messing around trying to get mac osx to work on my pc, I have been formatting and changing drives letters all over the place. Each failed attempt meant a repair or new vista install onto another partition and then delete the mac install. All was well until I changed the old ‘c’ drive to ‘e’ and lost profiles etc etc.
Now i can delete the fresh vista install and in the words of my wife ‘leave the damn thing alone!!!’ But you know and I know I wont

Thank you soooo much.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:10:13 +0000

Hurray!

Like many posting here, I have been googling like crazy to find a solution to my Vista using drive letter D: instead of C: after ghosting my two partition dual boot hard drive from a 200 Gb drive to a 500 Gb drive.

Tried EasyBCD and Vista DVD boot repair and several other guides, all failed.

Symptom: After cloning a dual boot XP and Vista hard drive from a 200 Gb drive to a 500 Gb drive (partition 1 – XP boots as C Drive (sees Vista as D Drive; partition 2 – Vista boots to C Drive, sees XP as D Drive), XP boots ok, but Vista boots as D Drive so nothing works properly, ie all user profiles try are recreated on D:, even though OS is on C Drive.

Solution: While in Vista, follow the leghumped guide above and swap the C and D drives in the registry. Reboot and now Vista should be back on the C Drive.

Solution #2: Another fantastic trick I have found is when your user profile refuses to load (as a result of the above problem or any other reason) in Vista you have to delete a registry key:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Find the profile name you are having a problem with and delete the key, e.g. S-1-5-21-XXXetc

Log off and on and your original profile should work again.

Good luck everyone, so happy to finally be on my laptops new 500 Gb hard drive with dual boot still working.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:36:01 +0000

Thanks
Not only did this help to get vista working again after extra drives had been removed but it solved another problem with vista /xp drives not swapping the same drive letters.
If only i found this 18 months ago.
Shame i still hate vista.

By: Recover grub bootloader with Vista, Xp and Linux (new) « /home

Recover grub bootloader with Vista, Xp and Linux (new) « /home — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:41:52 +0000

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By: OnuR

OnuR — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:18:28 +0000

wow, you saved my time to fix this issue.
I got the similar problem.
now fixed thanks to you.

thanks man.
Cheers!

By: Danilson

Danilson — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:11:11 +0000

Thank you man. It helped

By: Terri Hyland

Terri Hyland — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:48:38 +0000

For this, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU. YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF THE PAIN IVE GONE THROUGH ALL DAY!!!!!!

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:46:00 +0000

man you are the best !, i didn't believe it was that easy.

thanks

By: Echilon

Echilon — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:09:55 +0000

To go to a key, Start->Run->Regedit, then navigate to the key.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:58:38 +0000

Hi,
how do I “go to” a registry?
Thanks