Dual boot with 3rd drive(physical - not partition) installed

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Newtechie

I'm dual booting with 2 separate drives. One with WinXP MCE and the other
with Vista RC2 v5744. I have a 3rd drive for storage use only which shows
up as drive letter J when I'm in the XP system. However, when I'm in Vista,
it shows up as driver letter H. How can I get it to show the same letter
when I'm in either system? The purpose of this storage drive is for my
backups and also for my Recorded TV folder. I went to select the storage
location in the Media Center (Vista) and was alarmed when I saw that the
drive was H and didn't know if that would make a difference or will it not
recognize an H drive as the location is set to J in MCE system.

I'd appreciate any feedback.

Thanks,
newtechie
 
Newtechie said:
I'm dual booting with 2 separate drives. One with WinXP MCE and the other
with Vista RC2 v5744. I have a 3rd drive for storage use only which shows
up as drive letter J when I'm in the XP system. However, when I'm in
Vista, it shows up as driver letter H. How can I get it to show the same
letter when I'm in either system? The purpose of this storage drive is
for my backups and also for my Recorded TV folder. I went to select the
storage location in the Media Center (Vista) and was alarmed when I saw
that the drive was H and didn't know if that would make a difference or
will it not recognize an H drive as the location is set to J in MCE
system.

I'd appreciate any feedback.

Thanks,
newtechie
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Use Disk Management within Windows Vista to manage your drives and their
subsequent lettering. You will have to get your CD and DVD drives etc. out
of the way by moving them to the end of the alphabet. Then you can change
the lettering on the hard drives.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Hi Richard - thanks for your reply. The hard drives for the operating
systems are fine. They are maintaining their lettering. It's just the 3rd
drive that seems to be the problem. I haven't paid any attention to the
lettering of the DVD drives but I think they show up the same also. I'll
have to check when I get home. So are you saying I should changes the
letters of the DVD drives, then change the 3rd drive to J?
 
Newtechie said:
Hi Richard - thanks for your reply. The hard drives for the operating
systems are fine. They are maintaining their lettering. It's just the
3rd drive that seems to be the problem. I haven't paid any attention to
the lettering of the DVD drives but I think they show up the same also.
I'll have to check when I get home. So are you saying I should changes
the letters of the DVD drives, then change the 3rd drive to J?
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Something is now occupying letter J. Change it to something else to free up
the designation.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Ok thanks - I'll try that.


Richard Urban said:
Something is now occupying letter J. Change it to something else to free
up the designation.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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