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    Drive letters C: and D: changing dynamically

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Jorod, Mar 14, 2007.

  1. Jorod

    Jorod Notebook Enthusiast

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    My notebook is a Sony VGN-SZ370P and I partitioned the hard-drive to dual boot XP and Vista, 30 GB for XP and the rest for Vista (120 GB hard-drive).
    Everything works fine, all the FN buttons and switches work on both operating systems.

    The only thing I noticed is that the C: and D: drives keep switching back and forth. When I boot into XP, the C: Drive is assigned to XP and the D: Drive is assigned to Vista. When I boot into Vista, the C: Drive is assigned to Vista and the D: Drive is assigned to XP.

    I was wondering if this has happened to anybody before and if this bad for the hard drive? :confused:
     
    Jorod, Mar 14, 2007
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  2. sesshomaru

    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    Nothing wrong with it.. I've had similar issues earlier.. It's normal for two windows OSes to name drives according to their boot partition.
     
    sesshomaru, Mar 14, 2007
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  3. Jorod

    Jorod Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for your reply, the reason I asked was because I did this on my desktop and when I boot into XP and Vista the drive letters don't change like this. So I was worried it could damage the hard-drive.
     
    Jorod, Mar 14, 2007
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    Mobilehavoc Notebook Consultant

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    There's something wrong with your desktop then....Windows always boots from C:. Just the way it is.
     
    Mobilehavoc, Mar 15, 2007
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    starstreak Notebook Deity

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    Really? My computer is C: is windows XP. My I: is windows Vista.
    When I boot into Vista, my windows drive is I: for vista, and windows still sees my C: But whenever I install programs, it installs them to I:. Same holds true if I boot into windows XP. Everything is now opposite.

    Don't know if this matters but it happened to me this way both times I installed vista.
    1) Had windows XP on computer and booted with Vista and installed. But that time I partitioned weird where it made Vista C: and my windows XP another drive letter.
    2) I had windows XP and installed Vista from inside windows XP, so I already had a drive letter to tell it where to install Vista (I :).
     
    starstreak, Mar 15, 2007
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