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Old 08-05-2007   #2 (permalink)
Rick Rogers


 
 

Re: Vista install changes my drive letters

Hi,

No, there is no way. First, you cannot change the drive letters assigned to
the system or boot volumes and second, Vista by design will always designate
it's boot volume as C:.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Mason" <shiftiness@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:39A77DC8-D2D2-4884-AB51-AC8A5F0B1AAB@microsoft.com...
> 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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