"LarryW" <lwdaddio@newsgroups.nospam> wrote
>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:?
If the installation is done by booting the DVD then Vista will label the
volume it's installed to as C. If it's started from the XP desktop it will
take the label already assigned by XP.
As you have discovered you cannot change the drive letter for either the
volume with the boot files or with the system files.
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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]