how can I change the drive letter of a boot drive in win 2..

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the information in KB is incorrect. can't change using regedit, display is in
hex, and can't change in disk manager it won't allow changes to boot volumre

 

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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 06:56:09 -0700, "Bill Whitburn"
<BillWhitburn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>the information in KB is incorrect. can't change using regedit, display is in
>hex, and can't change in disk manager it won't allow changes to boot volumre

And always remember to change the paging file before doing this.

I changed the boot drive letter in the registry, and when Windows
(2000) booted, it tells me there is no page file (it was still
pointing to the old non-existant drive letter). Was a ah heck to fix it
as well.