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    Win 7 changed my partition letters

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by fotak, Aug 29, 2009.

  1. fotak

    fotak Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think the images will explain what I mean the best :D

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    The top one shows how it looks when I boot into Win7, and the bottom one shows it in Win XP.

    This wouldn't bother me, but now my shortcuts on the XP Desktop are messed up because W7 moved them one drive letter down, so they don't work.
    Also, I've set my Win XP registry and other files to be defragmented every time before the XP Welcome Screen pops, and now it defragments them in the following order: D, E, C instead of the usual C, D, E...
     
    fotak, Aug 29, 2009
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    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    Any time you dual boot, the partition letters will change. The partition with the OS you boot into will always be C:
     
    McGrady, Aug 29, 2009
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    fotak Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thank you, and thanks for the quick reply :)
     
    fotak, Aug 29, 2009
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    buckle Notebook Guru

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    yeah, that happened to me as well.. i just redid all my shortcuts
    my windows 7 drive seems to be I: in winxp but when I boot into w7, it becomes C:, nothing I can do about it, just fix em :)
     
    buckle, Aug 30, 2009
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