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Missing drive letters after WinXP Reinstalled...
- Thread starter greg.vaco
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They're gone: http://dban.sourceforge.net/faq/#reinstallation
You must choose manual partitioning during installation to get anything other than the default C: filesystem.
You must choose manual partitioning during installation to get anything other than the default C: filesystem.
still confused...
I'm still confused. I've rebuilt and repartitioned my hard drive after using DBAN to wipe everything out - as I wanted, I'm trying to start the new year absolutely clean. However, now that I have a fresh copy of WinXP Pro loaded on my primary partition ("C") and two other new partitions, I'm missing the drive letters (D & E) even though they're not assigned to anything. I understand that the old partitions are gone, but why are the drive letters missing under my new build? I thought I wiped everything out and reloaded from scratch, but there seems to be some residual data somewhere saying that drives D & E are assigned to something. I don't see this situation addressed in the documentation.
I'm still confused. I've rebuilt and repartitioned my hard drive after using DBAN to wipe everything out - as I wanted, I'm trying to start the new year absolutely clean. However, now that I have a fresh copy of WinXP Pro loaded on my primary partition ("C") and two other new partitions, I'm missing the drive letters (D & E) even though they're not assigned to anything. I understand that the old partitions are gone, but why are the drive letters missing under my new build? I thought I wiped everything out and reloaded from scratch, but there seems to be some residual data somewhere saying that drives D & E are assigned to something. I don't see this situation addressed in the documentation.
Yes, I know how to do the reassignment; the problem is that the available drive letters from the drop-down list are missing the letters (D & E) that were previously assigned to partitions before doing the DBAN. Yet, they are not assigned in the current build -- they're just missing. These unassigned, missing letters are the point of this post.
Run the registry editor and look at this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
If \DosDevices\D: and \DosDevices\E: exist here, then they have been assigned to devices. Reassign these devices.
If these do not exist here, then the Microsoft Windows is installation is broken. This kind of breakage is caused by twiddling and by non-default installation.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
If \DosDevices\D: and \DosDevices\E: exist here, then they have been assigned to devices. Reassign these devices.
If these do not exist here, then the Microsoft Windows is installation is broken. This kind of breakage is caused by twiddling and by non-default installation.