"On the Bridge" wrote:
Quote:
> ....Vista somehow "sees" the second partition as C because
> thats where its installed and the first partition with XP, it sees
> as D, and of course XP that is the first OS sees its own
> parition as C and the Vista one as D
>
> is there a way, after I ghost the XP image from the first
> partition and put it on to the second parition for it to call
> the second partition C and the first partition (that will now
> have vista) as D?
> This is the behaviour of vista now.. so can this same behavior
> be done on XP?
The behavior that you describe for Vista is the same
behavior for XP - the OS will continue to refer to its own
partition by the same letter name that it had when it was
installed, and it will temporarily assign other letter names to
the other partitions that it sees. Just be careful about setting
up the boot menu, so that the correct partition is selected for
loading at boot time.
Also observe the standard procedure when making a
clone of WinNT/2K/XP. That is to not let it see its "parent"
OS when it (the clone) is started up for its first run. Once
the clone has been run once without seeing its "parent" OS,
it can thereafter see its "parent" with no problems.
*TimDaniels*