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XP, Vienna (Se7en) and drive letters

Postby litemininyuszika » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:11 pm

Hi! I've installed XP and Vienna (Se7en) in my notebook. (To be exact, I did these steps in the past.)

First install was XP to partition C:. Later, I made a second partition from XP, N:.
My problem is Vienna (Se7en) is seeing itself as C:, and I needed to assign a drive letter to XP's partition (this is not a very large problem, it's exactly the same with Vista, except it assigned drive letter D: to XP).

My drive letters from XP:
C: XP Home N: Vienna
My drive letters from Vienna (Se7en):
C: Vienna I: XP Home

Can I change it to be exactly as in XP some way?

Thanks for everyone who reply!
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Re: XP, Vienna (Se7en) and drive letters

Postby yeshuas » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:17 pm

The OS's will normally see themselves as C when you are booted into them and assign other letters to the other OS's that are on the system e.g. When you are in XP it will show it to be C:\ and Windows 7 as perhaps D:\ or as you said in your case N:\, and then when you boot into Windows 7 it sees itself as C:\ and XP as perhaps D:\ or whatever.

I would not mess with changing the letters as you may end up making your system unbootable.
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Re: XP, Vienna (Se7en) and drive letters

Postby JabbaPapa » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:26 pm

Changing the drive letters is indeed unadvisable -- if however you really needed drive letters to be consistent, then you should install W7 by starting XP, inserting the W7 DVD, and running setup from within Windows. Of course you would need to trash your current W7 installation :-/
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Re: XP, Vienna (Se7en) and drive letters

Postby litemininyuszika » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:36 pm

Yes, I understand it. It's funny: A long time ago, at one Vista install - it was normal like all other installs -, the drive letter I assigned to Vista's partition from XP is "accepted" and I had exactly the same drive letters in Vista. How it can be true? It was really exactly the same as any other installs. Vista also can only upgrade and can't do a clean install to another partition when setup is started from within Windows, if I know it well.

I tried to install it from within XP, but it was 0% still after 5-10 minutes elapsed! My last upgrade to a leaked build (7022) was from XP.
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Re: XP, Vienna (Se7en) and drive letters

Postby JabbaPapa » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:43 pm

Upgrade is the default setting when you insert a Windows DVD, but you can change that setting during setup to clean install.
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