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    PCMW, blackhawk, dual boot config, drive letter assignments for O/S's

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Pursuvant, Jul 14, 2008.

  1. Pursuvant

    Pursuvant Notebook Enthusiast

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    For all with dual boot config from PCMW, Vista Ultimate 64 & XP Pro 32, what drive letter did they assign to XP ?
     
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    theriko Ronin

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    Edit: Disregard as better info has been provided
     
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    Wu Jen Some old nobody

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    C: for XP and E: for Vista with D: being your CD drive

    for some reason XP also shows me with an F: for my DVD drive even though D and F should be the same animal. Hrm...I probably have something like deamon installed.
     
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  4. WhapAChow

    WhapAChow Notebook Geek

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    I was able to install Windows XP Pro on my desktop that was natively Vista after XP service pack 3 came out (Intel Raid Controller drivers prevented me before hand - don't know why). My main drive 2x 500GB 7200RPM Maxtor drives in a RAID 0 shows up as C:\ under Vista Ultimate 32 and my XP Pro partition shows as D:\. I also have a DVD-RW+ drive and 2 card readers attached to my floppy drive (drives E:\, F:\, G:\, respectively).

    After installing and booting to WinXP Pro 32, that particular partition shows up as H:\, the Vista partition C:\, DVD drive D:\, and the two media card readers as E:\ and F:\. I've had no problems installing and running programs assigned to the H:\ drive and tried looking for ways to re-assign the drive letters but to no avail.

    I seem to recall from earlier Windows OSes that you could do it with a drop down box, assign the drive a new letter, restart and all was good (maybe WinME or even '98 - not sure). But I figured, if it's not broken, why try to fix it.

    Good luck.
     
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    Pursuvant Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thx WJ.

    WC, try EASEUS partioning software, it's free, & reassigning drive letters is only one of it's capabilities.

    http://www.partition-tool.com/
     
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