I have a following system that the drive letter of a boot volume got changed and I am trying to get it back (if possible).
1. HD1 has two partitions; C and D. C has Windows XP Home. D has no OS.
2. HD2 & HD3 are set up as RAID 1 (mirrored) with an Adaptec RAID card and has Windows XP Pro.
3. CD-ROM
4. SCSI Iomega tape drive
The Windows XP Pro crashed and it was decided on reinstallation of Windows.
In the middle of installation process, there was an error message saying the installation could not continue. It was not related to any HW problem.
I managed to finish installation but found the drive letter was changed from G to F.
Now, programs like MS Office, QuickBooks Pro, and others would not run.
If I boot to Windows XP Home, the RAID HD is seen as G.
Things I tried.
1. Reinstallation of Windows.
In the middle of process, it asked to provide a file, which it was trying to find from G (CD-ROM now) and I had to point to F drive to continue. The drive letter stayed as F.
2. Renamed “Dosdevices\F:” to “Dosdevices\G:” in the Registry without success.
Reinstalling those programs would be my last resort.
Any ideas or recommendations of getting the drive letter back?