To unassign a drive letter in Disk Management (Administrative Tools>Computer
Management, Highlight Disk Management),
right click on the drive you wish to change, click on Change Drive Letter
and Paths..., click on Remove).
"DanR" <dhr22@sorrynospam.com> wrote in message
news:ehRwstjaHHA.5108@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> My C: Vista drive 'now' does not show up in XP My Computer (as mentioned
> below) but is still shown in disk management. (from within XP)
> In another post "Red bar for D drive" someone suggested to unassign a
> drive letter in "Computer Management>Drive Manager" to hide the annoying
> red bar. I don't see how to do that but it got me wondering if there might
> be some trick to perform from XP disk management. From XP I turned off
> indexing of the Vista drive but it could not access attributes of various
> Vista C: files with "boot" in the filename. Now I notice that indexing is
> OFF for my Vista drive when viewing this setting from within Vista. I
> don't remember if I intentionally turned it off or if it's now off because
> I turned it off from within XP.
> So... I'm just throwing this out there to spark better ideas than I have.
> I'm a bit nervous about trail and erroring with the disk management
> settings.
>
>
> "DanR" <dhr22@sorrynospam.com> wrote in message
> news:ORztFZbaHHA.1296@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> TweakUi:
>> Does not work for me. It does hide my Vista drive from XP apparently.
>> Don't see it in 'my computer'. It took 2 attempts and reboots to get the
>> Vista (C
drive hidden from XP (D I then went to Vista and created a
>> restore point. Went to XP and back to Vista and the restore point was
>> gone. I then created another restore point in Vista... rebooted back to
>> Vista and restore point was there... and created another restore point.
>> Now I had 2. I booted back to XP and back to Vista and restore points
>> were gone.
>> Too bad.
>> My C: and D: drives are physical. I installed Vista on top of XP on the
>> C: drive. Then I installed another hard drive and put XP on it. I used
>> 'VistaProBoot' to create the dual boot menu.
>>
>>
>>
>> "kirk jim" <11@11.11> wrote in message
>> news:O$SzYIaaHHA.4008@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> this solution with tweakUI seems nice but something tells me that it
>>> wont work.. lol
>>>
>>> has anyone confirmed it? I have it installed and deselected the drive
>>> with vista on it..
>>> lets see....
>>>
>>> http://vistasupport.mvps.org/prevent...windows_xp.htm
>>> Workaround 2
>>> Another option, which is simpler if you don't want to go down the
>>> Bitlocker Encryption route is to boot into Windows XP and, using a
>>> freeware utility called TweakUi hide the Windows Vista partition from
>>> Windows XP. Because XP cannot see the Windows Vista partition it cannot
>>> remove the system restore points.
>>>
>>> The end result of both these workarounds is that you can move from
>>> Windows Vista to Windows XP and back again without losing the precious
>>> System restore points.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message
>>> news:OT2ldPYaHHA.4772@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>> McBob wrote:
>>>>> I dual boot with XP and Vista, but this wipes out Vista restore
>>>>> points. Anyone know of a work around for this?
>>>> ============================
>>>> A search turned up the following
>>>> links...
>>>>
>>>> Prevent System Restore Points
>>>> Being Lost When Dual Booting
>>>> With Windows XP
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/3xhbgy
>>>>
>>>> System Restore points and other
>>>> recovery features in Windows Vista
>>>> are affected when you dual-boot with
>>>> Windows XP
>>>> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> John Inzer
>>>> MS Picture It! -
>>>> Digital Image MVP
>>>>
>>>> Digital Image
>>>> Highlights and FAQs
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>>>>
>>>> Notice
>>>> This is not tech support
>>>> I am a volunteer
>>>>
>>>> Solutions that work for
>>>> me may not work for you
>>>>
>>>> Proceed at your own risk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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