System partition relabelled!

Xain

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After I uninstalled some troublesome software (Creative's Mediasource) and rebooted as the uninstaller requested, my system failed to boot. I used my Win2k's cd to boot into repair mode, where it told me that my Windows installation in at d:\winnt! Somehow, what was C: is now D: and D: is now C:, breaking Windows and probably most of my software.

The first partition on my drive was C: and is now D:. It has my Windows installation and usersettings. It's 10GB.
The second was D:, now C:, and has all my games and programs, datafiles and such like. It's 60GB.
The third partition is E: which is about 40GB and appears to be unaffected by this change.

I just ran map at the recovery console and the results are bizarre:

? 8MB Parition0
? 10GB Partition 0
C: 60GB Partition 1
E: 40GB Partition 2
D: 10GB Partition 3

There are two partition 0's and the 10GB partition that was C: is listed twice!

The system is Holly, specs in my sig or here - P4 3.0C, Win2kPro SP4, 120GB hard drive.
 

Sianath

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I've posted a couple times on the easist way to do this. Just go to another machine, connect remotely via regedit, and change your drive letters mappings in the HKLM\System\MountedDevices key.

:)