Vista - drive name change

I clean installed to my drive 'D'. After completeion and reboot, Vista has
renamed it 'C' drive and the old 'C' is now 'D'.

Why?
--
huck

No matter what drive or partition Vista is installed on, when you boot into
Vista, from IT's point of view it's drive will become C:.

I have a single HD with two partitions. Vista-32 is on the first partition
and Vista-64 is on the other.

Whichever Vista I boot to, that partition is always C:.


"huckleberry999" <huckleberry999@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:A4EB8F8E-0D51-4116-94F9-97375EE9144C@microsoft.com...
>I clean installed to my drive 'D'. After completeion and reboot, Vista has
> renamed it 'C' drive and the old 'C' is now 'D'.
>
> Why?
> --
> huck

This is normal when installing Vista from a DVD. It only changes the drive
letters within Vista, but does not change anything as far as your partition
structure goes. If you right click on my computer, select Manage and open
Disk Management, you can see that your partition structure remains as it was.
If you are multibooting with XP, when booting into XP, the drive letters will
be as they were before.

This has caused some confusion when first installing, but it is not a bug
but rather a design feature.

"huckleberry999" wrote:

> I clean installed to my drive 'D'. After completeion and reboot, Vista has
> renamed it 'C' drive and the old 'C' is now 'D'.
>
> Why?
> --
> huck

Vista will give whatever drive it is installed on preference, hence the
changing from D: to C:

"huckleberry999" wrote:

> I clean installed to my drive 'D'. After completeion and reboot, Vista has
> renamed it 'C' drive and the old 'C' is now 'D'.
>
> Why?
> --
> huck

Thank you guys - one to watch out for when loading the image to a couple of
hundred pc's at work...........!
--
huck


"Andrew" wrote:

> Vista will give whatever drive it is installed on preference, hence the
> changing from D: to C:
>
> "huckleberry999" wrote:
>
> > I clean installed to my drive 'D'. After completeion and reboot, Vista has
> > renamed it 'C' drive and the old 'C' is now 'D'.
> >
> > Why?
> > --
> > huck