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How to Rename a Partition?
In the vista Setup,i created a D and C drive.When i do not have vista
installed,i see the C drive as either D or E drive or in any case C drive is not longer called C drive.WHY and how do i change that?? Thanks |
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How to Rename a Partition?
Tim,
Before you install the new Vista operating system, you need to unplug any other attachments or extra hard drives, to keep from fouling up the lettering system. You can shrink or expand the partitions and the system will tell you the amount you can shrink. The CD/DVD drive will always be the last of the lettered drives. The best way is to install to a clean hard drive to get rid of a lot of headaches. In disk management, if you right click the drive you can see the available commands. -- Jerry One thing money can't buy, The Wagging Tail of a Dog. "tim" wrote in message ... In the vista Setup,i created a D and C drive.When i do not have vista installed,i see the C drive as either D or E drive or in any case C drive is not longer called C drive.WHY and how do i change that?? Thanks |
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How to Rename a Partition?
Hi, Tim.
"Drive" letters are NOT permanent. If you have multiple operating systems installed, each of them may - and probably will - assign different letters to the same volumes. WinXP does not know what Vista has assigned - and vice versa. Even a second copy of Vista does not know what letters the first installation is using. That is a part of the reason why each primary partition and logical drive should be assigned a volume label - a name - that will be written to the hard disk and will be consistently available, no matter which operating system is running. Disk Management is the tool to use to assign or reassign "drive" letters - except for the System Partition and Boot Volume. The only way to change those is to run Setup, which means to reinstall Vista (or WinXP). When we boot from the DVD to run Setup, it has no idea what letters have been assigned in the past. It asks you where to install Vista, and then it assigns C: to THAT volume, which becomes the Boot Volume for that installation. Then Setup assigns other letters, starting with D:, to the System Partition (if it is not also C:, the Boot Volume). If, as is usually the case, we tell Setup to install Vista on the first primary partition on the first hard drive, that partition will be assigned C: and will be both System Partition and Boot Volume. But if we tell Setup to install Vista on the 3rd logical drive in the extended partition on the second physical drive, then THAT volume will become C: and Setup will have to assign a different letter, probably D:, to that first partition on the first drive, which will become the System Partition. Of course, when we next boot into WinXP, it won't know what letters Vista has assigned, so the System Partition will still be C: when in WinXP. The only way we can at least partially control the assignment of letters is to first boot into WinXP and use Disk Management to assign the letters we want Vista to use. Then insert the Vista DVD and run Vista Setup from within WinXP. This way, Vista Setup can see the letters that WinXP has assigned and use those same letters in Vista. I've used "WinXP" and "Vista", but the behavior is the same when installing a second copy of WinXP or a second copy of Vista - or just about any other second installation of Windows/Vista. Most of the comments apply when installing only a single copy of either. Don't rely on drive letters. Assign names to each volume and use Disk Management to see which one currently is using which letter - and which is the System and Boot volumes. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64) "tim" wrote in message ... In the vista Setup,i created a D and C drive.When i do not have vista installed,i see the C drive as either D or E drive or in any case C drive is not longer called C drive.WHY and how do i change that?? Thanks |
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