Re: My First Post

That sounds right, pmj.
I installed Vista Beta 2 on a second partition on my single drive with
the letter K and XP was, of course, drive C. However, I started the
setup within Windows XP and now, regardless of whether I am in XP or
Vista, C is always the XP drive and K is always the Vista drive.

pmj wrote:
"Aries" <notme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:32:56 +0100, Steve wandered in and wrote:
<snip>
One interesting point is Vista re allocates your drives.
I installed it on it's own partition and disk under the drive
letter G: with my current XP install on C:, when running under
Vista G: is now C: and C: is now D:

Did it not ask or inform you it would be doing that?

Well, normally, most Operating System Installations (& that would
include Vista) allocate the Drive Letters to the various Drives
(& Partitions on the Drives) according to a strictly defined sequence.

(You can find out what that is, from any of the various Websites that
deal with Operating System Installation & Partitioning & File Systems.)

Each Installation will have the Drive Letters defined by that
Installation & they won't (normally) be the same Letters as in
another Installation

But, sometimes, (depending on whether the Installation of the
other Operating System is initiated from within an already
Installed Operating System), you can sometimes end up with the
Drive Letters being the same.

It sounds as if the Vista Installation was done by Booting from the
Install CD, rather than from within another Installation.

In which case, it wouldn't know anything about which Drives had been
allocated which Letters by the *other* operating System.

--
pmj

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