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Old 08-05-2007   #1 (permalink)
Mason


 
 

Vista install changes my drive letters

Hi all-

I installed Vista Ultimate 64-bit onto a 250 GB hard disk which was
partitioned as follows:

c:\ - 32GB
d:\ - 50GB (Vista)
e:\ - 50GB (XP)
f:\ - 50GB (other)
g:\ - 50GB (other)

I had XP installed on E:\ and use the C:\ drive to hold the boot
configurations and my documents folders which are shared across OS installs.
I installed Vista by booting from the DVD and telling it to install to D:\.
This completed fine, but when I boot into Vista it assigns the OS drive as
C:\ and sets itself as boot partition. Because of this I cannot reassign
the drive to be D:\ as it should be or get the original C:\ to act as the
boot partition. Is there any way for me to reassign this drive (perhaps
from WinPE)? I would really like the drive assignments to match up to what
they were originally and to have them consistent across OS again.

Thanks,
Mason

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