Fedwayguy

"LarryW" <lwdaddio@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:VA.00000028.0b31ad83@newsgroups.nospam...
> In article <dOLeqdjUHHA.2356@TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl>, Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
> wrote:
>> In Larry's case, his system drive is D and his boot drive is C
>> Since Larry cannot change his D drive, because is contains the boot
>> files,
>> that option is not available in disk managment.
>> So he want so label his E drive as D, which also isn't an option system
>> that would first require a change the D which isn't allowed as per the
>> above statement.
>>
> That's correct. I ended up wiping out the install and doing it when
> booted
> into XP and now the drive letters are the same as they were before which
> is
> just what I wanted.
>


There's actually a simpler way of doing what you want to do without going in
and tweaking anything.

Just swap out the drives that hold XP and Vista. Just unplug the power
supply and hit F8 or whatever the key is for your motherboard to select a
boot drive. That's it. The drive that you have plugged in and ready to go
will boot. Just be sure the other drive has no power to it. That's the way
I'm doing it now, although I've run into a small glitch I need to tweak.

My motherboard allows me to select a boot device. I have 5 hard disks
installed and two of those have Vista or XP Pro installed in a single
partition. Just be sure your boot drive is a single partition under Vista
due to the way Vista looks at the boot drive. I wish Microsoft would quit
trying to be funny and just keep the old way of doing partitions and all.
With the upgrade from Windows 98 to XP, it was plain and simple. Now with
Vista and all of it's funny business to keep you safe and secure (I don't
need to be safe and secure), they made it a lot harder to do things now.
Sure some of the things are great, but they should have put in more options
to let you decide how you want your system to run.