Is this true if you used your bios to designate which is the boot drive?
As Ruud described, I also have two Sata drives. XP was installed on Drive
0, however, prior to installing Vista on Drive 1, I told the BIOS to make
Drive 1 the boot drive. Then during the install, I wiped that drive, and had
Vista setup use it to install.
I have no problem switching back and forth through the bios (kind of a pain
but I'm used to it). I also have no desire to hide any disk drives from
either OS.
Also, I have not had any problems sharing or access files/folders from
either drive in either OS.
Thanks,
Erik
"Rick Rogers" wrote:
> Hi Ruud,
>
> Don't. Don't even try. Drive 0 houses your boot files (it's why it is
> designated the system drive), you will not be able to alter the drive letter
> designation. It doesn't matter where you install Vista, the active drive on
> the system will always be the one to house the boot files. By removing drive
> 0 from Vista, you would be removing the partition it boots from.
>
> The only resolution to this non-problem would be to run a startup repair by
> booting the Vista disk with drive 0 detached. Then, you would need to use a
> new means of deciding which system to boot, most likely by changing the
> primary boot drive through the system BIOS.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Ruud Bijvank" <RuudBijvank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2F6D06B2-F22C-45B8-83FD-65A198163F95@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've a multi-boot setup with Drive 0 - XP and Drive 1 - Vista.
> > When I boot XP, I've got C: - Drive 0 and D: - Drive 1. To avoid problems,
> > I've removed the D letter from drive 1 under XP.
> > However, when I run Vista, I've got C: - Drive 1 and D: - Drive 0. Far
> > enough. When I try to remove the D: from Drive 0, Vista won't let me,
> > because
> > it's a system drive.
> > Any ideas ?
>
>