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Old 02-16-2007   #1 (permalink)
LarryW


 
 

Vista installation drive letters

I have a system with a primary partition C: and an extended partition with
drives D: and E:. I have XP installed on C:. I just did a clean Vista
install to my E: drive. I've done multi-boot installs of NT and XP before
and when I did, the installation to drive E: left it as drive E: which is
what I want. After installing and booting Vista, the last partition (what
was E is now C:, my data/programs partition which was D: (and which I want
to stay as D is now E: and the XP boot partition which was C: is now D:. I
could live with Vista being on C: but I really want my data/programs on D:.
When I tried to change the D: (primary partition) letter to something else
(so I could then change E: to D, I get a message that I can't change that
drive because it's a 'system' disk. How do I either do an install such that
Vista stays booting from E: or change so that my D: drive stays as D:?
Thanks!

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