Microsoft's obsession with the C: drive?

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it was from xp pro 32 to vista 64 so it can not be launched. look like no
help if u mention of MS in bad way.well finally i did got both OS with
multiboot as another clean install on different drive. Still drive letter
change everytime i boot on different OS.

any solution from andy ? bcdedit/ vistapro boot
 
XP positive, other OS not sure.
XP for upgrade positive, other OS not sure.
upgrade is not a good idea, vista is not ready for prime time.



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Hello!
if you install from within another OS instead of boot from dvd, it will use the correct drive letter.

Is it possible to install Vista from Windows 98SE?

Thanks, Roman
 
Microsoft is requesting folks give the upgrade from xp to vista a try.
XP positive, other OS not sure.
XP for upgrade positive, other OS not sure.
upgrade is not a good idea, vista is not ready for prime time.



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Hello!
if you install from within another OS instead of boot from dvd, it will use the correct drive letter.

Is it possible to install Vista from Windows 98SE?

Thanks, Roman
 
Ah, I was wondering about that - I don't see the C: drive behavior that
folks are complaining about, and your explanation makes sense. (I'm not
saying that its *correct* behavior, just that it explains why I don't see
this problem in my install, and other folks do.)

-Bruce
 
I can't get it to run from within WinXP, receive "not valid
Win32 application" when running setup.exe

Laters,
Dick
 
I did the same exact thing that milleron did and all drive letters remained
as I had assigned them when in XP before the install of Vista as well.
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Exactly. You ran setup.exe from XP so it retained the drive letters. The
problem/confusion only happens if you boot from DVD to do the install.

Beverly
 
This may, I hope, be helpful and might even work in more than my case. I
purposely created a C:-drive that contained the page (swap) file from my
previous installations of XP before reinstalling any operating systems (I
deleted them all and left only my data partitions on my two hard drives);
this partition is my only FAT32 one. I then created each of three instances
of XP in the unpartitioned space at the beginning of the first drive (which
contained my data partition and the page partition at its end. XP, unlike
Vista, goes ahead and creates partitions for you in the unpartitioned space
and lets you designate the drive letters (if you choose the Advanced option).
My XP partitions stay at their designated drive letters in all three XP boots
(Drives K, L, and M).

I then created two partitions at the beginning of my second hard drive and
gave them the letters N and O; I did this in Disk Manager of XP. When I
installed my first instance of Vista, it installed into the first partition
and retained the drive letter I assigned. In all instances of XP and in Vista
the drive letters do not change. I think it is because I effectively "tied
up" the C: drive before installing anything. I have not installed my second
instance of Vista yet but I am somewhat confident that it will install as the
O-drive I designated.

I am using dial-up so I can't respond quickly to posts.
 
I'm guessing that you installed Vista by running setup from XP. Correct?

That scenario will result in drive letters that do not change. If you
install Vista by booting fromt the DVD, it will use the drive letter C:
regardless of anything you may have done in XP to assign drive letters.

Beverly
 
Thanks, Beverly.
Yes I did install by XP. My thought is that even if one installs from XP, if
the XP installation is NOT on on partition C:\ and if the C:\ partition has
not been assigned, Vista will end up on C:\. To prevent this, I made sure
that C:\ was not assigned when I installed Vista from XP (which was on the
N:\ "drive."

This is unrelated. Do you know why I cannot start a new thread? The reply
button works fine, opening this window I am writing in. But when I click on
the New button to the left of it, nothing happens.
 
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