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| | Drive Letter Problem - Vista Installation All, I was wondering if anyone knows how to install Vista where the OS partition uses the D: Letter and not C: I normally install my OS as fallows: C: temp directory (page File) (Primary Partition) (Fat32) D: Windows Directory (Logical Drive) (NTFS) E: Programs (Logical Drive) (NTFS) F: Data Files (Logical Drive) (NTFS) I've gotten use to this structure and would like to continue it... however when I did my first install of Vista (I did it from my WinXP installation) Vista took the drive letter I had temporarily assigned the partition Z:. My second attempt was booting to the setup disk but Vista took the C: drive Letter and assigned the Primary Partition a drive letter of D:. I would like the install to be as followes: C: temp directory (page File) (Primary Partition) (Fat32) D: Vista Directory (Logical Drive) (NTFS) I realize this is a little anal but... If anyone can help it will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. - CES |
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| | Re: Drive Letter Problem - Vista Installation normally if you install from another OS, vista will take the partition letter of the designated partition. you should format the partition prior to using the vista dvd. boot into your xp and then insert the vista dvd in the drive. select the "D" partition. do not knof it it being a LOGICAL drive will make a difference. I always use PRIMARY partitions. mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com "CES" <CES@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F5333326-3834-4235-9C45-8D59A9B20122@microsoft.com... All, I was wondering if anyone knows how to install Vista where the OS partition uses the D: Letter and not C: I normally install my OS as fallows: C: temp directory (page File) (Primary Partition) (Fat32) D: Windows Directory (Logical Drive) (NTFS) E: Programs (Logical Drive) (NTFS) F: Data Files (Logical Drive) (NTFS) I've gotten use to this structure and would like to continue it... however when I did my first install of Vista (I did it from my WinXP installation) Vista took the drive letter I had temporarily assigned the partition Z:. My second attempt was booting to the setup disk but Vista took the C: drive Letter and assigned the Primary Partition a drive letter of D:. I would like the install to be as followes: C: temp directory (page File) (Primary Partition) (Fat32) D: Vista Directory (Logical Drive) (NTFS) I realize this is a little anal but... If anyone can help it will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. - CES |
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