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From: Miller, S. <Sha...@yr...> - 2010-04-26 14:05:14
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Good day Pete, How would you feel about booting the Windows, going through any initial setup it might offer you (having just come fresh from a vendor), then resizing after a nice, clean, old-fashioned shut-down? Perhaps if you are hopeful to copy this dual-boot state to some other disks you could even look into re-sealing the Windows however the vendor did that. If so, you might then be inclined to capture an image of your disk before-hand so you can snoop around in it, looking for wherever SysPrep's current incarnation is. At least in Windows XP/2003, Windows uses HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices\ in the Registry to associate C: with a particular volume under HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet00X\Enum\STORAGE\. Removing the association for C: causes Windows to re-scan HDDs, looking for a disk matching params that NTLDR passed on. I'm not sure if this is the same for BOOTMGR and Windows > 2003. Good luck. A backup image of the whole disk is always handy. - Shao Miller |
