Chad Harris

Hi Mason--

Had you installed Vista by running it's setup on the XP drive, your drive
letters would not have changed--so you might note this for a future dual
boot. Once you setup though by restarting on a different drive, the BIOS is
going to dictate the drive letters and you'll have your present
configuration. When and if you boot to the XP drive, you'll have the drive
letters the way you want them but not on Vista.

Once you get used to it, it's no big deal.

This may be redundant for you, but I want to make sure you know you can
shortcut from your Vista desktop to your XP desktop and although you can't
access XP's OE but can merge Outlook easily, you can access any file or
folder on XP from Vista with a couple mouseclicks.

I have also noticed(Win Mail must have undergone some kind of change) that
what I send to Winmail on Vista now shows up in OE mail in XP.

If you're on the Vista desktop (let's say it is on C:\ drive), you can reach
the XP desktop by using

[XP Drive Letter]\Documents and Settings\Cheddarhead's Profile\Desktop

and from your XP Dsktop you can access Vista by using

[Vista Drive Letter]Users\Cheddarhead's Profile\Desktop

This may reduce your need to actually have to boot to XP which I do from
time to time to make sure the AV is running correctly, etc.

If a file is really important, I just drag it from the XP desktop to Vista's
desktop or any folder I want it in. Sometimes I move them around to
different drives if I want more space on one drive and the folder is large.

CH

"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
>