why does vista refuse to be in the c:drive? 1

[scorpio0009]

dual booted xp pro and vista. xp on c drive vista on d drive. the quirk is when on vista in my computer it shows that vista is the c drive. when in xp everything is correct just when in vista. cant figure it out. the config is as follows 2 80gig sata hd in mirror set each 20 gig c,d,e,f
tried to fix new install twice no luck. just irritating. thanks in advance

 

[linney]

Basically what you are seeing is normal behavior for Vista. It is installed where you told it to go, but when loaded calls its home drive as C:. Other partitions get the next drive letter available (when seen from Vista).

 

[bcastner]

This is a compatability decison.
I think once you work around the quirks in a dual boot situation you will respect the decision.


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[wolluf]

So MS have finally taken the sensible approach to dual/multi-booting! (If I was still a serious multi-booter, I'd applaud - but any multi-booting I do with vista will not involve vista's boot menu).

Does this mean there will now be questions asking how to change the system drive FROM C:?

 

[TonyJollans]

I don't know the ins and outs of this but I have a triple-boot with Vista on C, XP on D, and another Vista on F and do not see this behaviour. Whatever system I boot to the drives are mapped the same way; when booted to the Vista on F, the F drive is flagged with a little windows icon in My Computer to indicate which system I'm on. My guess is that Vista needs to see Vista on C, but not necessarily itself.

Enjoy,
Tony

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