Drive Letters Mixed Up - XP/Vista Dual Boot

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Athanasian Creed

Greetings all,

Forgive me if this has been covered but tonight i installed RC-2 (Bld. 5744)
and Vista installed OK, started OK and so did XP.

Problem is, in Vista, it is listed on the 'C' drive and XP on 'D' whereas
when i booted into XP, XP was 'C' and Vista was 'D' (actually listed as
'local disk' - i labelled it 'Vista')

I noticed a remark by Colin Barnhorst stating " If you are installing Vista
x86 then do so from the XP desktop. That will rationalize drive letter
assignments in Vista better."

Hmmm...i installed Vista from a reboot.

Question is, is there any way of getting both sync'd correctly drive letter
wise?? If not, will i experience any problems between the two OS's??

Any help from the local gurus (and all others) will be greatly appreciated!


TIA,


Ray

*********************

"I know men, and Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a
resemblance between Christ and the founder of empires, and the gods of other
religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christ and all
other religions whatsoever the distance of infinity; from the first day to
the last He is the same -- always the same, majestic and simple, infinitely
firm and infinitely gentle."
- Napoleon, Comte de Montholon Recit de la Captiv. de l'Emp. Napoleon, cited
in Farrar 81
 
Athanasian Creed said:
Greetings all,

Forgive me if this has been covered but tonight i installed RC-2 (Bld.
5744) and Vista installed OK, started OK and so did XP.

Problem is, in Vista, it is listed on the 'C' drive and XP on 'D' whereas
when i booted into XP, XP was 'C' and Vista was 'D' (actually listed as
'local disk' - i labelled it 'Vista')

I noticed a remark by Colin Barnhorst stating " If you are installing
Vista x86 then do so from the XP desktop. That will rationalize drive
letter assignments in Vista better."

Hmmm...i installed Vista from a reboot.

Question is, is there any way of getting both sync'd correctly drive
letter wise?? If not, will i experience any problems between the two
OS's??

Any help from the local gurus (and all others) will be greatly
appreciated!


TIA,
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When installed from a cold boot, each operating system will identify each
partition independently. For the average user this is not a problem. Where
it becomes an issue is when you have multiple drives in a network, and the
servers of the network are programmed to look for specific drives for such
things as automated backups, updates, malware scans, that sort of thing. It
is possible to change the drive letters, as long as you change the literally
hundreds of drive letter references in the registry. Or you can just leave
it be. Does it really matter what the actual drive letter assignment is in
your particular situation? I gave my partitions distinctive names, like
WinXPx86, VistaX64, Data, and Backup to keep them straight.
 
if you boot directly from the DVD and install, vista STEALS the "C" drive designation.
to retain the proper expected partition drive labeling you must install from another OS.

only recourse now is to format the vista partition. boot into XP and then insert the DVD in the drive and install vista pointing to the desired drive letter.



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Greetings all,

Forgive me if this has been covered but tonight i installed RC-2 (Bld. 5744)
and Vista installed OK, started OK and so did XP.

Problem is, in Vista, it is listed on the 'C' drive and XP on 'D' whereas
when i booted into XP, XP was 'C' and Vista was 'D' (actually listed as
'local disk' - i labelled it 'Vista')

I noticed a remark by Colin Barnhorst stating " If you are installing Vista
x86 then do so from the XP desktop. That will rationalize drive letter
assignments in Vista better."

Hmmm...i installed Vista from a reboot.

Question is, is there any way of getting both sync'd correctly drive letter
wise?? If not, will i experience any problems between the two OS's??

Any help from the local gurus (and all others) will be greatly appreciated!


TIA,


Ray

*********************

"I know men, and Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a
resemblance between Christ and the founder of empires, and the gods of other
religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christ and all
other religions whatsoever the distance of infinity; from the first day to
the last He is the same -- always the same, majestic and simple, infinitely
firm and infinitely gentle."
- Napoleon, Comte de Montholon Recit de la Captiv. de l'Emp. Napoleon, cited
in Farrar 81
 
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