Drive letters in different OS

Hi. Now before I start, I just want to note that my English is not perfect so my question may get confusing. Well the situation is this: on the new laptop I want to get, I want to make 2 partitions, 1 for XP and 1 for Vista. Is it possible that when you're in XP, the drive on which XP is installed on is called C: and the Vista partition is D:, but when you boot in Vista, you make the Vista partition C: and XP D:? I just want to know in advanced so I can plan how to set up the partitions.

Also, how do you "uninstall", that is completely remove an OS without a reformat? I tried to delete its folder from the other OS as well as delete its entry from the boot.ini but it keeps coming back and the option is still there on boot-up.

Thanks for any and all answer.

 

Don't worry about your English...the phrasing on that question is great.

I believe this is something that was discussed before. Both OS's want their partition to be the C: drive. I believe you will want Vista to be the C: drive, but I'm not certain. Someone else can undoubtedly answer that question much better than myself.

As far as uninstalling an OS. If you have a dual-boot situation you can wipe the partition from your drive. Once this is done, however, you'll have to change the boot structure. This is what I did when removing the Vista beta from my laptop:

Boot your computer in to Windows XP.

Ensure you have the Vista DVD image emulated or in the DVD drive.

Go to “Start” and “Run”. Type in “e:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt52 ALL /force” (without quotes, and replacing e: with the drive letter of your Vista DVD).

Restart the computer, and you will notice the boot selection menu is gone.

Format the partition/drive where you had Vista installed.

Remove two files (Boot.BAK & Bootsect.BAK) on your XP drive’s root folder (C:\), these were backup files of your previous bootloader, now no longer useful.

Optional: Restart to ensure it still works.

Use your partition software to merge your partitions together.

 

Thanks a lot ttupa. I will try that on my test computer. Just a quick question: Before I was looking at master boot record and volume boot record and commands to make new ones from a dos console. would that work too?