Re: changing drive letters

It works great,when the computer boots right BEFORE it enters the welcome to windows xxxx,you will get a screen that gives you what hd to enter and you can even label them ( xp or vista),it will show ALL the drives on your computer .
"Boris" <boris-badenough@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1175289938.225160.152210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 30, 2:08 pm, "Boris" <boris-badeno...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 30, 3:36 pm, "tony pac" <t...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



> Of coarse when you install vista on the second hard drive you must > have xp
> on it first,don't use Dells upgrade assistant just boot from the vista > disk
> and choose clean install you can add all your drivers after wards.I am
> absolutely not having any problems,it could because I am using 2 drives
> instead one with a partion on it."Journey" <rain...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in > message

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> > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:37:14 -0700, "tony pac" <t...@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:

> >>I have 2 internal HD,there is free software that when you boot up a > >>window
> >>pops up and you just choose what drive you want to boot to,its called > >>OSL
> >>2000,just Google it you will find it,it works great.XP is on one > >>drive &
> >>vista on another drive.

> > OK, thanks for the info -- I'll check it out. In another thread I
> > thought I caught something about havinb both drives active at the > > same
> > time causing problems, but I didn't pay much attention to it. The > > OSL
> > 2000 page does say that it supports Vista too so it may help with any
> > problems associated with that.

For sake of illustration...do I understand that:

You have XP on C.
You had XP on D, and did a 'clean' install of Vista over XP.

That is, you are not talking about XP and Vista on separate partitions
on the same physical drive?

I have WMCE on C:, and I wanted to try out Vista, but I didn't want to
dual boot from the same C: hard drive. I wanted to install Vista on a
new, second hard drive, D:, but I didn't know a boot manager existed
that would let you choose what physical drive to boot. At what point
does this program ask you to make a boot decision?

I just checked it out.
http://www.osloader.com/
Yep, it does boot from any drive, not just C:


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