Hello, All!
Doesn’t SharedUserData->NtSystemRoot point to windows dir anymore? In what circumstances?
In my configuration I observe SharedUserData->NtSystemRoot = c:\windows
(\device\HarddiskVolume2), but Vista was installed in g:\windows
(\device\HarddiskVolume6)…
Eugene.
Eugene Lomovsky wrote:
Hello, All!
Doesn’t SharedUserData->NtSystemRoot point to windows dir anymore? In what circumstances?
In my configuration I observe SharedUserData->NtSystemRoot = c:\windows
(\device\HarddiskVolume2), but Vista was installed in g:\windows
(\device\HarddiskVolume6)…
Merging two threads here, I did a search for NtSystemRoot and came up
with a source file in ReactOS that sets this value. Interestingly, they
hard code the drive letter to “c:”.
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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Eugene Lomovsky wrote:
In my configuration I observe SharedUserData->NtSystemRoot = c:\windows
(\device\HarddiskVolume2), but Vista was installed in g:\windows
(\device\HarddiskVolume6)…
Could this be a side effect of Vista File System Virtualization?
See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc138019.aspx
If Vista or 2008 OS is installed on the machine for the first time (i.e.
this installs bootmgr) - then it always marks its SystemRoot as C:, and the
first partition on the first disk (where bootmgr lives) - as D:.
This is very much unlikely pre-Vista Windows, where first partition remains
C: and the new drive letter is invented for SystemRoot of the new OS.
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Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com
“Hagen Patzke” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
> Eugene Lomovsky wrote:
> > In my configuration I observe SharedUserData->NtSystemRoot = c:\windows
> > (\device\HarddiskVolume2), but Vista was installed in g:\windows
> > (\device\HarddiskVolume6)…
>
> Could this be a side effect of Vista File System Virtualization?
>
> See: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc138019.aspx
>
Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
If Vista or 2008 OS is installed on the machine for the first time (i.e.
this installs bootmgr) - then it always marks its SystemRoot as C:, and the
first partition on the first disk (where bootmgr lives) - as D:.
Thanks, Maxim - I forgot to consider Vistas drive “re-shuffling”.
‘And the Win6 installer spoke “Let there be C:\WINDOWS”.’
> ‘And the Win6 installer spoke “Let there be C:\WINDOWS”.’
If you install the second copy of Win6 - then it will not get C: for
SystemRoot, it will get the next drive letter instead.
C: will be the first Win6 copy already existing in BCD, D: will be the first
disk partition where BCD/BootMgr resides itself.
–
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
StorageCraft Corporation
xxxxx@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com