Vista - Dual Boot and Change Drive Letter

As we know, when VISTA boots under a dual-boot system it assigns the boot
system to Drive C- and the unused XP system to Drive D.

I store my Data on drive D-- and under the dual-boot situation, that data
must remain on drive D so the program files in either system can find it.

The Disk Management under VISTA will not let you change the Drive letter of
a system drive. So I can not change Drive D to Drive X (for XP).

I know this can be done because I am able to do it now! I am running XP and
VISTA RC-2 with no problem- I do not remember how I managed to switch the
Driuve D letter when I did it last fall. Now it is time to do a clean install
of the final version of VISTA.

I have sewarched this Forum and read a lot of responses-- I tried EasyBGD
but the new drive letter did not "stick" upon reboot.

Any ideas??

Why don't you start the Vista clean install from within
Windows XP? That will preserve XP's drive letter assignment.

Gary VanderMolen


"Burger23" <Burger23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A544BBA6-127F-489E-B7CB-B476FF8DA8D0@microsoft.com...
> As we know, when VISTA boots under a dual-boot system it assigns the boot
> system to Drive C- and the unused XP system to Drive D.
>
> I store my Data on drive D-- and under the dual-boot situation, that data
> must remain on drive D so the program files in either system can find it.
>
> The Disk Management under VISTA will not let you change the Drive letter of
> a system drive. So I can not change Drive D to Drive X (for XP).
>
> I know this can be done because I am able to do it now! I am running XP and
> VISTA RC-2 with no problem- I do not remember how I managed to switch the
> Driuve D letter when I did it last fall. Now it is time to do a clean install
> of the final version of VISTA.
>
> I have sewarched this Forum and read a lot of responses-- I tried EasyBGD
> but the new drive letter did not "stick" upon reboot.
>
> Any ideas??