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From: John Robbins on 22 Feb 2010 08:01
Yesterday I made a change in the XP registry,(changed the drive letter)backed it up before the change.Rebooted the computer,but I wasn't able to log in.Windows will advance up tp a point and stop right before the log on screen.
I used the "Acronis BootableRescue Media"which was made a few hours earlier.Same thing no help at all.
I couldn't log into safe mode either.Any ideas?.BTW,I did a fresh installation,
From: John John - MVP on 22 Feb 2010 08:50
John Robbins wrote:
> Yesterday I made a change in the XP registry,(changed the drive
> letter)backed it up before the change.Rebooted the computer,but I wasn't
> able to log in.Windows will advance up tp a point and stop right before
> the log on screen.
> I used the "Acronis BootableRescue Media"which was made a few hours
> earlier.Same thing no help at all.
> I couldn't log into safe mode either.Any ideas?.BTW,I did a fresh
> installation,

What do you mean "I did a fresh installation"? What is a 'fresh
installation"? You did this 'fresh installation' when?

If your computer has a floppy drive boot the machine with a Windows 9x
startup diskette and issue the FDISK /MBR. If the machine doesn't have
a floppy drive you need to remotely access the registry and undo the
drive letter changes that you made earlier, read here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249321
Unable to log on if the boot partition drive letter has changed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188/
How to restore the system/boot drive letter in Windows

http://www.rwin.ch/xp-live/regedit.htm

John
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