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    Dual Boot Vista/Xp (Vista installed first)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Caviman2201, Dec 18, 2007.

  1. Caviman2201

    Caviman2201 Notebook Geek

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    I have read several tutorials on doing this dual boot setup, but one thing seems to be hanging... The XP root partition will be seen as something other than "C:" by WinXP.

    I used to have a machine with XP installed first... I created a second partition using PartitionMagic, installed Vista to it and everything was great... The Vista partition was seen as C by Vista and the XP partition was seen as C by XP.

    Is there any way around this or is it just something that must be dealt with if Vista is installed first?

    Thanks for any advice...
     
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  2. JellyGeo

    JellyGeo Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes - on both of my dual-booters (with Vista installed first), XP is the F: partition. No problem at all - but keep it in mind when installing eg Dell drivers because the script will want to extract them to C:\... This in itself doesn't hurt anything because the installer will find the XP installation and correctly install the update. On another system - when I installed XP after a format I just left unpartioned space to be used for Vista later - vice having to use Partition Magic to create a new partition.
     
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    But you're saying that when you log into XP, the XP installation is still on F:, right?
     
    Caviman2201, Dec 18, 2007
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