Changing drive letters made Batch file unreadable (Partition magic)

[Nate93]

Hi guys. First post here. I was trying to get my Dad's new drive up and running and had everything working for a dual boot. His old drive (C) and his new drive worked (K) But he's going to make the new drive his primary use drive and we wanted it to be the C drive. So, using partition magic I changed the C drive to L, so that the C drive letter would be available. Okay so far. Then I tried to change the K drive letter to C and it will not boot to this drive now. I get the following error from partition magic:

PartitionMagic (xmnt2002.exe)
PartitionMagic is unable to read the batch file.
Verify that the System32 directory is not compressed or corrupt.

I've found online that several people have had this problem w/ PM especially when changing drive letters (usually C drive) but I've been unable to find a solution. PM knowledge base seemed to think ChkDsk would fix it, but it did not.

Thanks for any help,
Nate

 

[captaincrunch00]

Would booting into the recovery console and using the two FIX commands work here?

I honestly dont know, but I dont see what it would hurt as long as the new C: has an operating system on it.

Boot to the recovery console off of the CD, get to the C: and do a FIXMBR and FIXBOOT

Type Exit to reboot.

 

[linney]

Can you change the drive letters back to when they worked?

Change Drive Letter Of Windows Drive
thread779-1227186

Change "system volume" drive letter
thread779-763819

 

[erikhertzel]

Try checking out this thread:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=439106&page=1

Regards.

Erik