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Troubleshooting a hard drive. Keywords: XP, repair, Symantec, drive letter, shutdown, NTFS, live CD.?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by admin| 1 Comment

I tried to troubleshoot a Dell computer with the Windows XP media center edition. Windows appears to be starting up, but it reaches the welcome screen and stays there. I tried booting from a Symantec recovery disc from a Norton Systemworks Premier package in hopes of restoring the most recent settings, but the software couldn’t see the hard drive. I tried to repair the installation with a Windows XP OS CD, but it didn’t seem to see the hard drive, either. I thought I could at least leave an Ubuntu Linux live CD so the owner could access the Internet, and after it loaded, it could see the hard drive. I tried to click on the main partition, and the following error message was displayed:

Cannot mount volume.
Unable to mount the volume.
Details
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0) Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda2′: Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use.

There was more, but I’m running out of space. Is there any way to get back into Windows as it was?

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Drive Letter Problem?

Posted on July 2, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

Hello,
Ok i recently reformatted my HD and for some reason it automatically got assigned the letter H:, i hadnt had any problems with it until today when i was trying to download adobe flash player, it wouldnt let me install it because the drive wasnt named C:, so i looked up instructions on how to change (i have no other partitions), so i did and now my PC doesnt get passed the welcome page, it just freezes right there, im actually using a live linux cd to find a solution to this problem, any help?
forgot to add that im running XP pro
3. Start Regedt32.exe.
4. Go to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevices
5. Click MountedDevices.
6. On the Security menu, click Permissions.
7. Verify that Administrators have full control. Change this back when you are finished with these steps.
8. Quit Regedt32.exe, and then start Regedit.exe.
9. Locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevices
10. Find the drive letter you want to change to (new). Look for “DosDevicesC:”.
11. Right-click DosDevicesC:, and then click Rename.

Note You must use Regedit instead of Regedt32 to rename this registry key.
12. Rename it to an unused drive letter “DosDevicesZ:”.

This frees up drive letter C.
13. Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for “DosDevicesD:”.
14. Right-click DosDevicesD:, and then click Rename.
15. Rename it to the appropriate (new) drive letter “DosDevicesC:”.
16. Click the value for DosDevicesZ
I have access to my windows files through this live cd, i just dont know which one to modify.

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