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About ten minutes ago I just finished installing Vista (x64) along with XP already installed (x86). Although, I have one hard drive, so I partioned it into two drivers, once has Vista, the other has XP. When I installed Vista, it was normally on the 'D:' drive, now it's on 'C:', so how would I change it back and would it affect anything? I'll normally use my XP part of the computer, that's why I'd like the XP part to be 'C:' instead of 'D:'
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| I don't think you can change the drive letter of an active partition, and Windows Vista and later (7 as well) are set to [annoyingly] whore the C:\ label. If you have problems seeing the XP partition from the Vista one, you can always Right click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management(Local). From there you can assign the partition a letter.
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| Karakawe wrote: | | I don't think you can change the drive letter of an active partition, and Windows Vista and later (7 as well) are set to [annoyingly] whore the C:\ label. If you have problems seeing the XP partition from the Vista one, you can always Right click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management(Local). From there you can assign the partition a letter. |
Yeah, I tried that. Doesn't let me change Vista's label. 
EDIT: Actually, when I'm on the XP OS, it's C:, and Vista turns to D:, but when on Vista, Vista is C: and changes XP to D:, lol. Weird concept there.
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Yes, what ever OS is booted up there will take on the C:\ Drive Letter...
If I were you I'd just call the XP Partition "XP" and the Vista Partition "Vista"...
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| iTz SWAT wrote: | Yes, what ever OS is booted up there will take on the C:\ Drive Letter...
If I were you I'd just call the XP Partition "XP" and the Vista Partition "Vista"... |
That's exactly what I did.
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When I first installed xp, I had it dual booting with ubuntu.
As a result xp didn't have c:\ and loads of programs failed.
Had to reformat and then install linux after.
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| xV wrote: | | Karakawe wrote: | | I don't think you can change the drive letter of an active partition, and Windows Vista and later (7 as well) are set to [annoyingly] whore the C:\ label. If you have problems seeing the XP partition from the Vista one, you can always Right click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management(Local). From there you can assign the partition a letter. |
Yeah, I tried that. Doesn't let me change Vista's label.
EDIT: Actually, when I'm on the XP OS, it's C:, and Vista turns to D:, but when on Vista, Vista is C: and changes XP to D:, lol. Weird concept there. |
Before Windows Vista came out, if you got a dual booting system and install XP on to the D:\. When you boot from XP it will show up as D:\
The problem with that is some programs will not notice it's in D:\ will install it into c:\ thus messing up the entire OS. Another issue was because of users that gets confused with the drive labeling and especially for tech support. Trying to help someone over the phone who barely know which drive letter they're OS is installed on is a PITA.
Vista change that and it's better that way.
And this is not a weird concept.
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Well, I dislike it =\ I'd rather have one OS (my main one that I'll use) on C: since most older programs will install it on that, and one that I don't use on another one. Is there anyway to change it? Or I'm stuck like this.
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You have 1 hard disk with 3 partitions
Parition 1 C:\ for XP (label as XP)
Partiton 2 D:\ for Vista (label as Vista)
Partition 3 E:\ for Programs (label as for programs)
Booting up from XP will show C:\ as the XP drive under My Computer
Booting up from Vista will show C:\ as Vista under My Computer, but this C:\ is not the C:\ that you install XP on.
Vista just borrow the drive letter to make the user's life easier such as C:\ will always be the drive letter it uses when you boot from that OS.
Once you boot from the real C:\ (XP), their drive letters go back to where it belongs.
Understand now
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| kls85 wrote: | | xV wrote: | | Karakawe wrote: | | I don't think you can change the drive letter of an active partition, and Windows Vista and later (7 as well) are set to [annoyingly] whore the C:\ label. If you have problems seeing the XP partition from the Vista one, you can always Right click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management(Local). From there you can assign the partition a letter. |
Yeah, I tried that. Doesn't let me change Vista's label.
EDIT: Actually, when I'm on the XP OS, it's C:, and Vista turns to D:, but when on Vista, Vista is C: and changes XP to D:, lol. Weird concept there. |
Before Windows Vista came out, if you got a dual booting system and install XP on to the D:\. When you boot from XP it will show up as D:\
The problem with that is some programs will not notice it's in D:\ will install it into c:\ thus messing up the entire OS. Another issue was because of users that gets confused with the drive labeling and especially for tech support. Trying to help someone over the phone who barely know which drive letter they're OS is installed on is a PITA.
Vista change that and it's better that way.
And this is not a weird concept. |
When you think about it, he's right, having C:\ as always booted partition is great because it makes our lives easier when we are helping someone out. And when Vista is installed the Partition should be automatically called Vista/XP so then people know which drive they are in...
xV your just going to have to get used looking at Drive Names and not Drive Letters...
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