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Postby kd1966 » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:04 pm

Tordenflesk wrote:excalibur14: That's just not possible, because the running OS will always assign itself as the first "disk"(C: ) and then asign drive-letters after that.


Not necessarily true; depending on how the "running OS" was installed plays a big factor in determining how it will assign drive letters. Most OS installations that are done by booting the media take the C, but I've seen other methods initiated from within Windows that take different letters
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Postby JabbaPapa » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:32 pm

I have (very VERY rarely) seen setup from DVD assigning a different letter than C: for the Vista volume ;) (oh OK but --- only when existing Vista boot files and pre-Vista boot environment were already present in the rig :P )
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Postby excalibur14 » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:27 pm

@Tordenflesk

That is fine...

When I am in Windows XP I want to assign Q: as the Vista Drive.

When I am in Vista I want to assign Q: as the XP drive.

In this way i can assign D: to the documents drive irrespective of which OS I am in.

I am sure there must be some way of doing it... :yesnod: :notworthy :yesnod:

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Postby RodWiddowson » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:52 am

Better support of Kernel developers: specifically

1) When you create a new boot you need to specify (the equiv of)

bcdedit /set {current} inherit {bootloadersettings}

2) Need to be able to set up the /DBGsettings

3) need to be able to set/clear /debug
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Postby colsaunders2 » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:34 am

excalibur14 wrote:When I am in Windows XP I want to assign Q: as the Vista Drive.

When I am in Vista I want to assign Q: as the XP drive.

In this way i can assign D: to the documents drive irrespective of which OS I am in.

You can change the drive letters easily - just open Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc), right-click the intended drive and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." - click the 'Change' button to select the new drive letter. Do this in both OSes :yesnod:
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Postby kd1966 » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:58 am

Here's my "short list" of what I'd LIKE VBpro to do:

- During the install, look at the HDD's/partitions and see if there is a dual/multi-boot scenario, then copy the bcdedit.exe/bootsect.exe files to the XP partition (\win\sys32\) as well as to where it belongs in Vista.

- Possibly also look (By default) during the BCD backup phase at the "My Documents" or whatever we want to call it these days. I know in Vista it's sorta changed, but could VBPro "sense" what OS is running and go to that specific users "Documents" directory for BCD backup?

- Is it at all possible to have a VBPro bootdisk? (Floppy/CD) I'm not even sure why I'm asking for this one, but I've heard some requests.............. would/could it work?
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Postby cbebop » Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:03 pm

colsaunders2 wrote:
excalibur14 wrote:When I am in Windows XP I want to assign Q: as the Vista Drive.

When I am in Vista I want to assign Q: as the XP drive.

In this way i can assign D: to the documents drive irrespective of which OS I am in.

You can change the drive letters easily - just open Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc), right-click the intended drive and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..." - click the 'Change' button to select the new drive letter. Do this in both OSes :yesnod:


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Re: VistaBootPRO: What would you like it to be able to do?

Postby masudkarim » Fri May 01, 2009 6:49 pm

Would you like to open the Events log? ... I'm afraid you won't be able to find the help you need here. ... What should I do after this? I really want to get Windows Vista out of my Toshiba laptop and run the recovery CD that it came
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Re: VistaBootPRO: What would you like it to be able to do?

Postby augie » Fri May 01, 2009 6:59 pm

masudkarim wrote:Would you like to open the Events log? ... I'm afraid you won't be able to find the help you need here. ... What should I do after this? I really want to get Windows Vista out of my Toshiba laptop and run the recovery CD that it came


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