Dual Boot and Drive Letter

[Michael Dobony]

I have both Vista and XP up and running on my laptop on separate
partitions, with Vista as my OEM OS. However, XP is loading up and running
from my F drive. Is there any way to have the XP drive identify itself as
the C drive when I boot to XP? Eventually I want to eliminate the Vista OS
and recover all the XP drive to one partition, C, so I would like to have
everything loaded to the C drive so that when I eliminate Vista everything
is on C already. Right now any programs loaded in XP are put on the F
drive instead of the C drive.

Then I need to bulk edit my registry so that the programs I already loaded
to get XP running are redirected to C instead of F. How can I do a find
and replace in the XP registry?
Thanks

Mike D.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have both Vista and XP up and running on my laptop on separate
partitions, with Vista as my OEM OS. However, XP is loading up and
running
from my F drive. Is there any way to have the XP drive identify itself as
the C drive when I boot to XP? Eventually I want to eliminate the Vista
OS
and recover all the XP drive to one partition, C, so I would like to have
everything loaded to the C drive so that when I eliminate Vista everything
is on C already. Right now any programs loaded in XP are put on the F
drive instead of the C drive.

Then I need to bulk edit my registry so that the programs I already loaded
to get XP running are redirected to C instead of F. How can I do a find
and replace in the XP registry?
Thanks

Mike D.

After you have loaded WinXP and its applications on drive F: you must stick
with this drive letter. Changing it would cripple your installation. If you
wish to avoid this situation in future then you must use a third-party boot
loader (e.g. XOSL) so that you can install each OS on a partition that uses
C: as its system drive letter.

 

[thecreator]

Hi Mike D.,

The question is why would you want to run Windows XP on C:, when most of
the viruses hit operating systems installed on C:.

None of my Windows XP operating system run on C:. They run on a
different Drive Letter. I use C:, always formatted as FAT32 as my Boot
partition, so I could edit the Boot.Ini file if needed, by booting up the
computer from a Windows 98 SE Startup Diskette.

The C: partition is a very small partition.

 

[Malke]

Hi Mike D.,

The question is why would you want to run Windows XP on C:, when most
of
the viruses hit operating systems installed on C:.

None of my Windows XP operating system run on C:. They run on a
different Drive Letter. I use C:, always formatted as FAT32 as my Boot
partition, so I could edit the Boot.Ini file if needed, by booting up the
computer from a Windows 98 SE Startup Diskette.

The C: partition is a very small partition.

It has been many, many years since malware writers were that stupid. Not
running Windows on C: will give you zero protection. If you haven't gotten
infected it's due to your own good surfing/computing habits and not because
you put your operating system on something other than C:.

Malke