Move BCD store to other partition

[Guest]

Hello

In advance I created 3 partitions and intended them to use in this way:

partition 1: NTFS primary and active/boot (2GB)
partition 2: NTFS primary (50GB)
partition 3: NTFS primary (100GB)

However, when I begin the installation of Windows Vista, it installs vista
as I choose and it's installing it on the 2nd partition, which is OK!!
The BCD-store has been created on partition 1 as it should be, so far so good.

When I startup my windows vista , I notice he has made following drive letters

Partition 2 : C-drive (windows vista system drive)
Partition 1 : D-drive (boot drive with BCD store)
Partition 3 : E-drive (data drive)

I want to rename the D-drive to B: and make it hidden.

How can I do this? Because every time I want to change drive letter from D:
to B: I get errors.

Thanks for your rewarded suggestions.

Best Regards

Nick Wouters
Belgium

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Nick,

Don't try either. If you make the active partition hidden (and you'd have to
use a third party boot manager for this), the system won't boot. Plus, you
cannot change the drive letters assigned to either the boot or system
volumes. This is by design.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Hallo Rick

Ok, that's clear. I will not put the BCD-partition hidden.
Is there really no possibility to place the BCD-store on a drive called B:,
we deliver installations for our customers and they are very well-trained
that the D: is only user-owned data instead of System-data!

So, does this mean it is really NOT possible or just not preferable?

Best regards

 

[Guest]

Hi Nick,

Don't try either. If you make the active partition hidden (and you'd have to
use a third party boot manager for this), the system won't boot. Plus, you
cannot change the drive letters assigned to either the boot or system
volumes. This is by design.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Hallo Rick

Ok, that's clear. I will not put the BCD-partition hidden.
Is there really no possibility to place the BCD-store on a drive called B:,
we deliver installations for our customers and they are very well-trained
that the D: is only user-owned data instead of System-data!

So, does this mean it is really NOT possible or just not preferable?

Best regards

 

[John Barnes]

If these are all IDE or SATA, you should be able to change the B partition
as active if it is a primary partition, then you can do a startup repair.
Be sure you know how to reset the active partition using your install disk.
Also, many have reported having to run startup repair several times. 1 has
reported that startup repair still recognised the original BCD store, but
that was a mixed IDE SATA system and the BIOS on some MOBOs make this a
problem unless the IDE is disconnected.