Dual Boot Unexpected Event

[Chalkie121]

I bought a HP laptop just after Christmas which had a free upgrade to Vista.
I ordered one, but had to wait ages. in the meantime I borrowed an Windows
Anytime Upgrade DVD and from this installed the Premium version of |Vista
with a view to trying it out before my legal version arrived. In my laptop
the are two hard drives and I installed it on the D drive (data) so that the
machine dual booted. When I was using XP, the OS drive was recognised as
drive C, and the Data drive as drive D (nothing unusual yet) However, when
using Vista the Data drive was recognised as C with the operating system on.
This I found suprising.

When my upgrade discs arrived I first of all put the HP upgade disc in
first, but did not use it as it appeared it would upgrade my verion of XP to
Vista. I did boot the Vista upgrade disc from XP (so that it woud 'see' a
valid licence) and then chose Custom and installed it on my D drive.
Everything went OK and I was able to validate my version of Vista.
Everything appears to be OK so far. However, and here is where I need
help/advise, when in Vista my Data drive with the Vista OS on is now Drive
D. (The reverse of my initial installation)

Does this matter? have I done anything wrong?

Thanks in anticipation of help from some boffins.

Chalkie121

 

[Don]

... However, and here is where I
need help/advise, when in Vista my Data drive with the Vista OS on is
now Drive D. (The reverse of my initial installation)

And Vista is installed on C:? (You don't actually say that, but you
seem to imply it.) That would be the norm. Vista likes to think of
its own partition as C: and re-names all other partitions as needed,
even if they have other names in XP.

Does this matter? have I done anything wrong?

Sounds normal to me. If everything works OK then don't mess with it,
and don't worry about it.

 

[Chalkie121]

And Vista is installed on C:? (You don't actually say that, but you
seem to imply it.) That would be the norm. Vista likes to think of
its own partition as C: and re-names all other partitions as needed,
even if they have other names in XP.


Sounds normal to me. If everything works OK then don't mess with it,
and don't worry about it.

No. Vista is installed on the Data (D drive). When I install any program
the path comes up as D:\Program files\whatever.

Chalkie121

 

[Don]

No. Vista is installed on the Data (D drive). When I install any
program the path comes up as D:\Program files\whatever.

Okay, I see now why you are confused -- I'm confused too )

You installed Vista twice on the same physical disk but the 2nd Vista
behaves differently from the first Vista. Is this right so far?

I would look in the Disk Management section of the Computer Management
section of Control Panel. This gives you a graphical picture of which
partition is which, and on which physical disk.

You should be able to work backwards to decide if Vista is really
installed where it claims to be.