1. Normally you'd just go to \Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\ and copy the appropriate profile. Or, you could just copy the entire directory, so you don't have to change the default profile to point to yours.

2. for using the Administrator account. At least you should set a password for it... Logging on as another administrator-privileged account will allow you to delete the extra account. Be sure to backup everything you need there, because Windows may or may not automatically move it to the administrator account.

3. Open up the 'disk manager' in the MMC (Microsoft Management Console) by start > run > 'mmc'. Then, press ctrl+m to add a snap-in, choose 'disk manager'. You should be able to change drive letters there. Note that if you actually swap around the partition order (which is not the case when you do a 'repair' install of Windows), you may have to change the boot.ini file to point to the correct partition.

It should be pointed out that it's probably possible to use the recovery console to extract drivers and system files, but it's probably easier just to repair, although you'd have to reinstall programs.

I know most of these were mentioned sporadically throughout the thread, but I decided to chip in with a comprehensive response. =)

hmmmmm. dont think i can help any more mate. unless of course you have another drive with an OS on it, boot into that, slave your fucked HD and then change the drive letter. though that would only work if your new HD wasnt labelled as C: already.

good luck!

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Thx guys, I've been looking stuff up, and all I've found was to use regedit to change the mounted drive letters.
i did that before, and windows hung right before the login screen.

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Originally posted by kadomony and all I've found was to use regedit to change the mounted drive letters. i

if you keep trying that you're gonna have to reinstall windows again

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Originally posted by sandstorm03 if you keep trying that you're gonna have to reinstall windows again

where have you been you giuseppe-bumming git lee

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fixed

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alright i think i got it.
changed the mounted drive letters in regedit and did a windows repair.

it seems to have switched the drive letters now.

running a bit slow, but im gonna go thru the registry and manually change references

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You might as well just do a clean reinstall. Since it's back up and running, you can copy over all the data that you need to keep (hint: entire profile directory [defaults to c:\documents and settings\%user%] if it's not too big). Of course, if you wanted to do that in the first place, you could've just used another method to access the data.

Glad you got it up and running again.