Madevil Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 after I tried to install M5 4015 on my D: drive today... in the end, it changed the installed partition to drive C: ..... (situation here: it swapped my C: and D: .......) :blink: anyone has encountered this before? this freaking new feature is like a joke... :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NXPdev Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 Yep... happened to me on both M4 and M5... annoying... only it swapped about 4 of my drive letters around, even though I started the install from a previous version of Windows so that it would keep the letters. I think this is due to the nature of the WinPE (hope it gets fixed...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted June 7, 2003 Veteran Share Posted June 7, 2003 it will do that because of the way it's installed. i don't think there's any way around it. the old versions of windows, when they were installed, took the list of drive letters from windows (the os running when the installer first ran). so if you're running windows from c:\windows, and launch the installer for xp, your "x:" drive will show up as "x:" in the new install. but if you install from dos, or boot from the cd, the "x:" drive will turn to "d:". longhorn's installer basically copies an image of the hard drive to the hard drive, and when you first boot longhorn, it detects all the hard drives and partitions. (afaik) so it detects the drive it's on as "c:" and starts the rest of them at "d:"... that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NXPdev Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 It does make sort of sense... but it does it in a weird way... the drive letters aren't ordered according to partition... it's very random. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macman87 Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 i think this kinda happend with me when i installed windows 2000.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeons Posted June 7, 2003 Share Posted June 7, 2003 What is WinPE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashpickinman Posted June 8, 2003 Share Posted June 8, 2003 What is WinPE? see here http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/arch.../2003/04/2/4025 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdiaz2day Posted June 8, 2003 Share Posted June 8, 2003 Yea, Longhorn Alpha is dumb like that to change its mind on what drive letter to install on... :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NXPdev Posted June 9, 2003 Share Posted June 9, 2003 It doesn't change its mind... it just has it made up beforehand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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