The drive or partition that you boot into will always be the C: drive.
2 disks
Disk 1: 2 Partitions XP on first partition, first partition is C: when you are in XP
Disk 2: 2 partitions Vista x86 on first partition, Vista x64 on second partition. In Vista x86,
first partition is C:, in Vista x64 second partition is C:
Using Disk Manager you can change the drive letters for the other drives/partitions but you cannot
change C:
Look at Windows Explorer in both XP and Vista and you will see that you have only ONE C: drive
| Dear Bruce,
|
| Thank you for your advice.
|
| After repair of Windows XP, I tried to upgrade with Vista. Hoping accepting
| the drivers installed. That went wrong, so I newly installed Vista after
| formatting.
|
| Strangely I have now two C:-drives.
|
| The original c: the bootsector with Windows XP and on the other drive the 2'
| partition, called E but by Vista seen as C, when started.
|
| But all is working, so closing the case.
|
| Fr. gr.,
|
|
| Willem/Boeti
|
|
|
| "Bruce Sanderson" wrote:
|
| > Sorry, I know absolutely nothing about OneCare! I see there is a newsgroup
| > called microsoft.public.fr.windows.onecare that you might find useful,
| > although I see all the posts are in French (not surprising considering the
| > ".fr" in the name).
| >
| > For the PCI card(s) that are problematic, I suggest a seperate post with the
| > name of the card in the subject; someone else may have some information that
| > will help.
| >
| > You could try an upgrade from XP to Vista; some Windows XP drivers work well
| > with Vista and some may not.
| >
| > Not sure what you mean by your question "A". Each OS installation is
| > independent of the others.
| >
| > I see there are several "microsoft.public.de.windows.vista" and
| > "microsoft.public.fr.windows.vista" newsgroups. You may find that you can
| > get better help in those by avoiding the "language barrier".
| >
| > --
| > Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
| >
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders
| >
| > It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
| >
| >
| >
| > | > > Dear Bruce,
| > >
| > > 1- At this moment the dualboot of XP is present.
| > > Everything went wrong.
| > > Your first advise dd 11/13, brought me Vista back.
| > >
| > > But a PCICard: VScom PCI 100 HV2port, doesn't work.
| > > First installing was impossible, later the port was there even the Creativ
| > > Modemblaster.
| > > But both working: no.
| > > At VScom found no drivers.
| > >
| > > - Therefore I went back to XP by using the preinstalled recoveryconsole.
| > > There arrived, so much was wrong that I had to reinstall XP.
| > >
| > > ! Later reading about Live OneCare, somewhere a declaration was present,
| > > that Live OneCare backup XP and --Vista did not work together.
| > > I know for sure that XP made backups and also Vista did with Live OneCare!
| > >
| > > 2- Not knowing all this, I earlier tried to get a backup of both.
| > >
| > > A- Is there a way to work from XP to get in Vista?
| > >
| > > B- Can Vista made an upgrade of XP by hoping that all installed drivers of
| > > XP lead to the good drivers for Vista? My XP now is US-en.
| > >
| > > C- How can I prevent that the backups of OneCare cause to conflict.
| > >
| > > Last but not least, we speak of Vista tryout and reinstalling it, lead to
| > > less loss of documentation and data, for me now, and is easyer I think.
| > >
| > > Thanks sofar and waiting your remise,
| > >
| > > Fr. gr.,
| > >
| > > Willem/Boeti
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > > "Bruce Sanderson" wrote:
| > >
| > >> It is not clear to me what your situation is. Unfortunately, my only
| > >> language is English!
| > >>
| > >> Usually, "Recovery Console" items only appear in the boot menu if you
| > >> have
| > >> specifically installed the Windows XP Recovery Console.
| > >>
| > >> If your XP installation was damaged during or because of the "crash", it
| > >> may
| > >> be necessary to re-install or repair the XP installation. If it is just
| > >> the
| > >> boot environment that is damaged, if you supply the information requested
| > >> below, I may be able to give explicit instructions to fix it so you can
| > >> boot
| > >> to Vista or XP.
| > >>
| > >> 1. in your reply, paste the content of the boot.ini file from the root of
| > >> the "System" partition (as identified in Computer Management, Disk
| > >> Management)
| > >> 2. if you can boot to Vista, open a Command Prompt window ("elevated" -
| > >> Run
| > >> as Administrator) and include the result of the following command in your
| > >> reply:
| > >>
| > >> bcdedit -enum
| > >>
| > >> 3.
| > >> a. open a Command Prompt window (in Vista, open it "elevated" - Run as
| > >> Administrator)
| > >> b. type these commands
| > >>
| > >> diskpart
| > >> list disk
| > >>
| > >> c. for each Disk listed in the response to the "list disk" command, type
| > >> the
| > >> commands
| > >>
| > >> select disk n
| > >> list partition
| > >>
| > >> d. for each Partition listed for each disk, type these commands and reply
| > >> with the results, and identify which partition(s) have Windows XP or
| > >> Vista
| > >> installed in them
| > >>
| > >> select partition n
| > >> detail partition
| > >>
| > >> For example:
| > >> C:\Windows\system32>diskpart
| > >>
| > >> Microsoft DiskPart version 6.0.6000
| > >> Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Microsoft Corporation.
| > >> On computer: V32RTMRETAIL
| > >>
| > >> DISKPART> list disk
| > >>
| > >> Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
| > >> -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
| > >> Disk 0 Online 112 GB 95 KB
| > >> Disk 1 Online 149 GB 158 KB
| > >> Disk 2 Online 149 GB 26 GB
| > >> Disk 3 No Media 0 B 0 B
| > >> Disk 4 No Media 0 B 0 B
| > >>
| > >> DISKPART> select disk 0
| > >>
| > >> Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
| > >>
| > >> DISKPART> list partition
| > >>
| > >> Partition ### Type Size Offset
| > >> ------------- ---------------- ------- -------
| > >> Partition 1 Primary 15 GB 32 KB
| > >> Partition 2 Primary 49 GB 15 GB <-- Windows XP SP2
| > >> installed here
| > >> Partition 3 Primary 12 GB 63 GB <-- Windows Vista
| > >> installed here
| > >> Partition 0 Extended 37 GB 75 GB
| > >> Partition 4 Logical 12 GB 75 GB
| > >> Partition 5 Logical 12 GB 87 GB
| > >> Partition 6 Logical 13 GB 99 GB
| > >>
| > >> DISKPART> select partition 1
| > >>
| > >> Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
| > >>
| > >> DISKPART> detail partition
| > >>
| > >> Partition 1
| > >> Type : 07
| > >> Hidden: No
| > >> Active: Yes
| > >>
| > >> Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status
| > >> Info
| > >> ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
| > >> * Volume 10 D D0P1System NTFS Partition 15 GB Healthy
| > >> System
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >> --
| > >> Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
| > >>
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders
| > >>
| > >> It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
| > >>
| > >>
| > >>
| > >> | > >> > Dear Bruce,
| > >> >
| > >> > Your 6 points are followd, indeed Vista appeared, but instead of the 2'
| > >> > choice: "older systems" there came "recovery console" for the XP's
| > >> > C:.....;D:.....;E:..... E obviously does not work .
| > >> >
| > >> > Next question: How replacing "recoveryconsole" in "older operation
| > >> > systems"
| > >> > again appearing dual boot XP ; XP + recover console.
| > >> > I hope my description is clear, for my language is in dutch.
| > >> >
| > >> > Up to here my thanks,
| > >> >
| > >> > W/B
| > >> >
| > >> > "Bruce Sanderson" wrote:
| > >> >
| > >> >> bcdedit is a command line tool for changing the Vista boot settings;
| > >> >> it
| > >> >> lives in %systemroot%\system32 of every Vista installation, but will
| > >> >> not
| > >> >> correct your problem..
| > >> >>
| > >> >> Use the file bootsect.exe that is in the folder called boot on the
| > >> >> Vista
| > >> >> installation DVD.
| > >> >>
| > >> >> These instructions should restore your Vista/XP dual boot
| > >> >> environment -
| > >> >> for
| > >> >> "x", use whatever letter your DVD reader happens to have.
| > >> >>
| > >> >> 1. boot to XP
| > >> >> 2. put the Vista DVD in the DVD drive
| > >> >> 3. open a Command Prompt
| > >> >> 4. key the command x:
| > >> >> 5. key the command cd x:\boot
| > >> >> 6. key the command bootsect /nt60 sys
| > >> >>
| > >> >>
| > >> >> --
| > >> >> Bruce Sanderson (bsanders)
| > >> >> MVP Printing
| > >> >>
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders
| > >> >> (e-mail address removed)
| > >> >>
| > >> >> It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong
| > >> >> question.
| > >> >>
| > >> >>
| > >> >>
| > >> >>
| > >> >> message
| > >> >> | > >> >> > L. S.,
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> > In a dual booting system the second drive has 2 partitions.
| > >> >> > The last install is Vista on disk 2, 2' partition.
| > >> >> > After a crash nothing was accessible. But was asked for a system
| > >> >> > drive.
| > >> >> > So I first entered the XP operation cdrom, but that was not the
| > >> >> > good
| > >> >> > one.
| > >> >> > After placing the Vista beta2 cd was asked for recovering. So I did.
| > >> >> > Vista
| > >> >> > wil work, but the others not. By offering the XP cd rom is the
| > >> >> > questing
| > >> >> > to
| > >> >> > repair which drive so I choose the C drive. The dual boot works but
| > >> >> > now
| > >> >> > is
| > >> >> > Vista not accessible. In the boot ini of Windows XP is a warning
| > >> >> > that
| > >> >> > the
| > >> >> > boot of Vista can be changed with bcdedit.exe.
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> > Whats the name of that file, and what's the content. Is there
| > >> >> > anything
| > >> >> > else
| > >> >> > to look for or is reinstalling nenecessary?
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> > From XP dosn't matter which one the partition of Vista is seen.
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> > From Vista both others are also seen.
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> > What now?
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> > Fr. gr. for any help,
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> > W/B
| > >> >> >
| > >> >> >
| > >> >>
| > >> >>
| > >>
| >
