Thanks, Beverly.
Yes I did install by XP. My thought is that even if one installs from XP, if
the XP installation is NOT on on partition C:\ and if the C:\ partition has
not been assigned, Vista will end up on C:\. To prevent this, I made sure
that C:\ was not assigned when I installed Vista from XP (which was on the
N:\ "drive."

This is unrelated. Do you know why I cannot start a new thread? The reply
button works fine, opening this window I am writing in. But when I click on
the New button to the left of it, nothing happens.

"Beverly Brown" wrote:

> I'm guessing that you installed Vista by running setup from XP. Correct?
>
> That scenario will result in drive letters that do not change. If you
> install Vista by booting fromt the DVD, it will use the drive letter C:
> regardless of anything you may have done in XP to assign drive letters.
>
> Beverly
>
> "Edwin" <edwin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:83766FA0-CE3E-4539-AEA1-8B759A5671DC@microsoft.com...

> > This may, I hope, be helpful and might even work in more than my case. I
> > purposely created a C:-drive that contained the page (swap) file from my
> > previous installations of XP before reinstalling any operating systems (I
> > deleted them all and left only my data partitions on my two hard drives);
> > this partition is my only FAT32 one. I then created each of three
> > instances
> > of XP in the unpartitioned space at the beginning of the first drive
> > (which
> > contained my data partition and the page partition at its end. XP, unlike
> > Vista, goes ahead and creates partitions for you in the unpartitioned
> > space
> > and lets you designate the drive letters (if you choose the Advanced
> > option).
> > My XP partitions stay at their designated drive letters in all three XP
> > boots
> > (Drives K, L, and M).
> >
> > I then created two partitions at the beginning of my second hard drive and
> > gave them the letters N and O; I did this in Disk Manager of XP. When I
> > installed my first instance of Vista, it installed into the first
> > partition
> > and retained the drive letter I assigned. In all instances of XP and in
> > Vista
> > the drive letters do not change. I think it is because I effectively "tied
> > up" the C: drive before installing anything. I have not installed my
> > second
> > instance of Vista yet but I am somewhat confident that it will install as
> > the
> > O-drive I designated.
> >
> > I am using dial-up so I can't respond quickly to posts.
> >
> > "troma" wrote:
> >

> >> I did a clean install of beta2.
> >>
> >> i have xpp installed on c: drive.
> >>
> >> vista on the second partition of my primary drive.
> >>
> >> during setup i partitioned and formatted the D: partition. expecting
> >> vista
> >> to be installed to the D drive.
> >>
> >> but after setup vista is on a c: partition. and it shows XPP on D: and i
> >> think you can't change the drive letters of a system or boot partition.
> >>
> >> if I boot into XP it is on the c: and it shows vista on E:
> >>
> >> hope this is will be resolved before RTM.
> >>
> >> no biggie, but it would be nice if I could keep the same drive letters
> >> for
> >> the same partitions\drives in different OS's.
> >>
> >> or even better if you had the option to select a drive letter for each
> >> drive
> >> including CD\ DVD devices during Windows setup
> >>
> >> i.e.
> >>
> >> HDD0 Partition0 = C:
> >> DVD = D:
> >> HDD0 Partition1 = V:
> >> DVD-RW = W:
> >> HDD1 Partition 0 = X:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't need to hear that this is by design, or to use 3rd party
> >> partitioning software...
> >>
> >> What is Microsoft's obsession with the C: drive?
> >>
> >>

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