Vista RC1 Dirve Letters?!

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Ted said:
The hell it isn't people you don't know what you doing.

I have that same thing and everything's running correctly.

If you install Windows XP on C:, then install Vista on any other partition,
thats what you'll see. I have it! so why can't other people have!

Stupid people!
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thanks ;-) ... i reinstalled vista and then i saw your posting. i didn't
know that there is a difference between the two install options (from xp
or after booting) concerning the drive letters. sorry for that ^^
 
Well, glad I am not the only one. I installed from the DVD, picked the proper
partition (2) during setup and it trumped the drive letters and my partitions
look identical to the original poster. When in XP, partition 1 is C, when in
Vista, partition 2 is C.

The reason this is a problem, and could be of concern, is that for someone
like me, who regularly runs a dual boot, it can hose your original OS
programs when you go to install programs on the new OS. For example, as soon
as I got Vista running, I installed MS Office. It wanted to install it on
c:\program files\etc.. Sine XP is (so I thought) on C, I said, no, put it on
the D drive. Little did I know that it was going to overwrite MS Office on my
XP build since while in Vista, my XP build is D. It wasn't until after the
install that I realized it trumped my drive letters. I feel this is probably
a bug the MS needs to work out.
 
I boot Vista, the drive letter is F:, My old xp drive is C: and
usable.

I Boot XP (via Bios Boot order), XP is C:, Vista is F: (but has
permission issues).
I do not seem to be able to boot XP from the boot selection (black
screen) menu, NT loader not found..
 
If you want to boot from the Vista boot loader, copy the ntldr, ntdetect.com
and boot.ini onto the drive with the Vista bootloader on it. Use
VistaBootPro or EasyBCD to add a legacy O/S. You should then be able to
access the boot.ini menu thru the Vista bootloader (with Vista boot file on
your BIOS priority drive) You may have to modify the entry in the boot.ini
file to point to the correct drive/partition for the XP system.
 
If you want to boot from the Vista boot loader, copy the ntldr, ntdetect.com
and boot.ini onto the drive with the Vista bootloader on it. Use
VistaBootPro or EasyBCD to add a legacy O/S. You should then be able to
access the boot.ini menu thru the Vista bootloader (with Vista boot file on
your BIOS priority drive) You may have to modify the entry in the boot.ini
file to point to the correct drive/partition for the XP system.
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I tried VistaBootPro, it admonished me Not to change the drive letter
for XP (which appeared to me, to be wrong) What the hey! I can always
fix it later.
Thanks
Steve
 
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