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From: Richard Lovelady on 2 Feb 2010 11:56
After getting the blue screen of death several times, I tried to restore my
Acronis ghost image of my hard drive. The restore was unsuccessful so I
reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP Media Edition. When
completed I found my Hard Drive letter was I not C. I've found info on how
to change other drive letters but they won't work on the Boot Drive. What
can I do?

From: Daave on 2 Feb 2010 12:19
Richard Lovelady wrote:
> After getting the blue screen of death several times, I tried to
> restore my Acronis ghost image of my hard drive. The restore was
> unsuccessful so I reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows
> XP Media Edition. When completed I found my Hard Drive letter was I
> not C. I've found info on how to change other drive letters but they
> won't work on the Boot Drive. What can I do?

I wonder if you performed a parallel install instead of a clean install.

Assuming your hardware is fine (more on this below):

Try it again, making sure the only peripherals connected are your
keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Make sure you delete *all* the partitions.
Then create a partition and format it, and then commence the
installation of XP. More info:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

Of course, this is assuming you are using a generic OEM installation
disk. In the event your PC comes with a different method to reinstall XP
MCE, you need to follow the directions that came with the documentation.
If you don't have the documentation, you should be able to find it
online. Or if you provide us the make, model, and model number, someone
here should be able to assist you.

The above presumes you have checked your hardware and it is in good
shape. Remember BSODs often indicate faulty hardware. And since you were
unable to restore your Acronis image archive, this is a distinct
possibility. Had you included the complete text of your BSOD messages,
we could have given you more helpful information. For now, look at the
information here with regard to hardware troubleshooting:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot


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