{"id":179,"date":"2004-10-17T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-prevent-boot-problems-when-manipulating-a-bootable-windows-2000-xp-2003-partition\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:29:46","slug":"how-to-prevent-boot-problems-when-manipulating-a-bootable-windows-2000-xp-2003-partition","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-prevent-boot-problems-when-manipulating-a-bootable-windows-2000-xp-2003-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Prevent Boot Problems When Manipulating a Bootable Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 Partition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is intended to provide advice which can help prevent you from having problems booting from a Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 partition after copying, sliding,&nbsp;or moving it.&nbsp; If you have already&nbsp;manipulated a Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 partition and are having difficulty booting from it now, please refer to the article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&quot;Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 Fails to Start after Manipulating Partitions in BootIt BM&quot;<\/a>.<\/p><hr id=\"null\" \/>\r\n  <p>You may encounter problems booting from a Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 partition after copying, sliding, or moving it.&nbsp; These problems can happen because of discrepancies that exist when references to the original drive letter exist on the Windows partition, but a new drive letter has been assigned after the partition was manipulated.&nbsp; For more information on the drive lettering issue, please refer to the article&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&quot;Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 is Assigning the Wrong Drive Letter to a Partition&quot;<\/a>, which provides&nbsp;information on how Windows tracks drive letters among drives and partitions.<\/p>\r\n  <p>Here are some steps you can take to help prevent problems booting after manipulating a Windows partition.&nbsp; (Please note that with BootIt BM,&nbsp;you probably do not need to carry out these steps if Windows is installed to either &#92;WINDOWS&#92; or &#92;WINNT&#92;.)&nbsp; If you&nbsp;choose to perform these steps anyway,&nbsp;<strong>they need to be carried out <em>before<\/em> the partition is manipulated.<\/strong>&nbsp; Both tips require the use of Regedt32 (Windows 2000) or&nbsp;Regedit (Windows XP\/2003):<\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>Delete&nbsp;all the values under <strong>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE&#92;System&#92;MountedDevices<\/strong>.&nbsp; (If you have multiple <strong>MountedDevices<\/strong> keys in the registry, edit the one that has &quot;&#92;??&#92;&quot; and &quot;&#92;DosDevices&#92;&quot; entries&nbsp;under it.)&nbsp; <em>Please note: Deleting the values under the MountedDevices registry key will cause all drive letters to be reassigned according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">standard method used by Windows<\/a>.&nbsp; This may cause problems if a particular drive letter is needed by Windows for booting.<br \/><br \/><\/em><\/li>\r\n    <li>Change the value of <strong>Userinit<\/strong> under <strong>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE&#92;Software&#92;Microsoft&#92;Windows NT&#92;Current Version&#92;Winlogon<\/strong>&nbsp;from &quot;C:&#92;WINDOWS&#92;system32&#92;userinit.exe&quot; or &quot;C:&#92;WINNT&#92;system32&#92;userinit.exe&quot; to &quot;userinit.exe&quot; (without quotes). <\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is intended to provide advice which can help prevent you from having problems booting from a Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 partition after copying, sliding,&nbsp;or moving it.&nbsp; If you have already&nbsp;manipulated a Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 partition and are having difficulty booting from it now, please refer to the article&nbsp;&quot;Windows 2000\/XP\/2003 Fails to Start after Manipulating Partitions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1782],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2147,2145,2146],"class_list":["post-179","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-nt-2k-xp-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-2003","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-2k","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/179\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}