"Wolverine Gene" <WolverineGene@discussions.microsoft.com> said this in news
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> "Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:
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>> "Wolverine Gene" <Wolverine Gene@discussions.microsoft.com> said this in
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>> > Hi: When I go into the Recovery Console, the choice I get is #1 C:
>> > drive.
>> > When I installed XP or did a recovery, don't remember, my main drive
>> > changed
>> > to F: Drive by itself. I can't get the repair to work to get me out of
>> > the
>> > log on loop to do a repair of USERINIT. How can I change my choice to
>> > F:
>> > Drive. thanks...Gene
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>> Do you have a problem while in Recovery Console mode or while in Normal
>> mode? Also - what is the recent history of this machine?
>> I go into Recovery Console mode without any problem. I don't know what
>> you mean by Normal mode. I built this machine maybe 6 years ago and it
>> preformed flawless until I got Netsky and Rootkit virus's plus whatever
>> else in it. After I ran Spybot, I got in the log on log off cycle
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With "Normal Mode" I meant the way Windows normally boots up, i.e. not Safe
Mode and not Recovery Console.
To me an infected machine is a compromised machine. I never try to fix them
because I no longer trust them.
You can modify the System drive letter back to C: by booting up normally,
then running regedit.exe and renaming this value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices\F:
to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices\C:
If the value HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\DosDevices\C: already
exists then you can delete it safely.
Whether this will solve all of your problems is another question - see
above. Remember that virus scanners are here to keep viruses out. They
cannot possibly fix all the damage done by viruses.