Hey... don't get me involved in this
Cheddarhead
"Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
news:%23TzC0d%231HHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> 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
>>
>
>