HHawk
April 23rd, 2008, 05:50 AM
Well everything worked fine before, but after I had to reinstall Windows Vista x64 (because it wouldn't install SP1) on C:\ (where it was before), I am having some problems changing drive letters.
Before the reinstallation of Vista my partitions were like this:
C:\ Vista x64 (2 x raid 0 drive)
L:\ Windows XP x64 (a single 250 GB HD)
D:\ through H:\ pagefiles, games, etc.
Anyways after the reinstallation of Windows Vista x64 with SP1 it mixed up the partitions.
C:\ Vista x64
D:\ Windows XP x64
Which is very annoying, so I decided to redo the drive letters (like they were). Everything worked out well, except changing the Windows XP x64 drive letter (from D:\ to L:\ ) gives me a (big) problem.
Everytime I try to change it from D:\ to L:\ it will reboot (like normal) to change the drive letter, but it will give me the following error:
ERROR: Unable to read disk 3 sector 544829153 (Retry / Ignore / Ignore all).
Of course I cannot select an option, e.g. retry.
I already did a chkdsk & defragmented the disk, but it gives me the same error over and over. Booting back to either Windows still works without problems, but the drive letter remains unchanged. Which is pretty annoying for me, since Windows Vista & XP will not show the same partitions in my specified order...
Any advice?
//edit
Uhmz... Come to think of it; I use a USB memory stick with U3 for Windows Vista's ReadyBoost. Maybe that's the troublemaker. Would explain it. Anyways I will give it a new go and report back...
Before the reinstallation of Vista my partitions were like this:
C:\ Vista x64 (2 x raid 0 drive)
L:\ Windows XP x64 (a single 250 GB HD)
D:\ through H:\ pagefiles, games, etc.
Anyways after the reinstallation of Windows Vista x64 with SP1 it mixed up the partitions.
C:\ Vista x64
D:\ Windows XP x64
Which is very annoying, so I decided to redo the drive letters (like they were). Everything worked out well, except changing the Windows XP x64 drive letter (from D:\ to L:\ ) gives me a (big) problem.
Everytime I try to change it from D:\ to L:\ it will reboot (like normal) to change the drive letter, but it will give me the following error:
ERROR: Unable to read disk 3 sector 544829153 (Retry / Ignore / Ignore all).
Of course I cannot select an option, e.g. retry.
I already did a chkdsk & defragmented the disk, but it gives me the same error over and over. Booting back to either Windows still works without problems, but the drive letter remains unchanged. Which is pretty annoying for me, since Windows Vista & XP will not show the same partitions in my specified order...
Any advice?
//edit
Uhmz... Come to think of it; I use a USB memory stick with U3 for Windows Vista's ReadyBoost. Maybe that's the troublemaker. Would explain it. Anyways I will give it a new go and report back...