Dual Boot and Change Drive Letter

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Guest

As we know, when VISTA boots under a dual-boot system it assigns the boot
system to Drive C- and the unused XP system to Drive D.

I store my Data on drive D-- and under the dual-boot situation, that data
must remain on drive D so the program files in either system can find it.

The Disk Management under VISTA will not let you change the Drive letter of
a system drive. So I can not change Drive D to Drive X (for XP).

I know this can be done because I am able to do it now! I am running XP and
VISTA RC-2 with no problem- I do not remember how I managed to switch the
Driuve D letter when I did it last fall. Now it is time to do a clean install
of the final version of VISTA.

I have sewarched this Forum and read a lot of responses-- I tried EasyBGD
but the new drive letter did not "stick" upon reboot.

Any ideas??
 
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Gary VanderMolen

Why don't you start the Vista clean install from within
Windows XP? That will preserve XP's drive letter assignment.

Gary VanderMolen
 

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