You mean if it changes AFTER installation? Because I recall installing Windows XP on top of another Windows XP, and getting the OS drive to be mapped to D: and everything was working fine (just on the wrong drive). The problem was I had to reformat and install with a different media in order to get it as C: (I had an upgrade disk around only), because changing the drive letter of the system drive after installation is unfeasible.
The problem is not hardcoding C:, the problem is just that ALL of those paths are stored in absolute form in the registry, without even using environment strings such as %SYSTEMROOT% to store them. But really, it's not like you can go around unexpanding environment strings, chances are it would open quite a lot of security holes. On 10 December 2014 at 09:15, Michael Fritscher <mich...@fritscher.net> wrote: > Hi, > > congratulations! It's a pity that MS hardcodes the C:\ at more and more > places... Original Windows NT 4.0 can boot completely even if the > drive-letter changes, WinNT + IE throws an error message but works, on > Windows 2000 one is automatically logged out again if it changes, on > Windows XP even the login-Screen doesn't appear... > > Best regards, > Michael Fritscher > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev >
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