f0rbez Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Just a little background info. I run 2 drives in raid-0, with 3 partitions on them. First partition is XP, 2nd is games, and 3rd is longhorn. I couldn't install longhorn from within XP because I needed to load the raid drivers. So I booted from dvd and did that. BUT, I guess bios automatically assigns the dvd drive with D: because once the dvd booted, my drives were marked C: E: and F: Now, I want to shift the drive letters so that C: D: and E: are my three partitions. Is there any way to change the drive letter that is assigned to the boot disc before I install? Edit: Sorry mods, I meant to put this in the Vista section. Although it applies to any windows os probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlishFun Veteran Posted August 2, 2005 Veteran Share Posted August 2, 2005 [Moved Here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunbiz_3000 Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 For New Vista CP View: Control Panel => Peformance & maintainance => Administartive Tools => Computer Management => Disk management..... Here u can right-click on the drives and then change the drive letters !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Drive letters will be a thing of the past when Vista is released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivand Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Yeah? and what will be we using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gertin Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 That virtual directory crap that nobody understands, yay :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username(); Posted August 2, 2005 Share Posted August 2, 2005 Drive letters will be a thing of the past when Vista is released. 586313592[/snapback] No, they will still be there. MS isn't making them the past anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rbez Posted August 2, 2005 Author Share Posted August 2, 2005 You can't change it because longhorn is the boot partition. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 No, they will still be there. MS isn't making them the past anytime soon. 586313649[/snapback] Drive letters will be off by default, or rather they were in previous builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rbez Posted August 3, 2005 Author Share Posted August 3, 2005 I don't think drive letters are going to be gone. Maybe hidden. But the operating system relies on mapping drives to letters. Unless they use a different way to map the drives, drive letters will still exist. But anyway, I solved my problem by hiding certain partitions before I installed longhorn forcing longhorn to pick the letter I wanted. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiiragi Tsukasa Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Yeah, we're talking about a non-linux core. Unless they rewrite the whole core of Vista to detect drives at /disk/1 or whatever then they are going to keep it. If they did do that it'd just make things more complicated. Plus compatability problems would arise. Plus there are badly written installers that look for C:\ and nothing else, or C:\Windows\System32. If you'd try and run those on /disk/1 what would happen? It'd be too much of an overhaul in my oponion to rewrite a bunch of code to do that. And pretty stupid too. Most users of Windows don't know **** about how a computer works. So even if they do hide the drive letters it's stupid. What is wrong with Microsoft. Tons of people are going to be confuised! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecaveman Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Kenta you ever heard of enviroment variables? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiiragi Tsukasa Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 No. I never really got anywhere in programming or stuff like that, if it even has to do with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turkishdelight Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Drive letters will be a thing of the past when Vista is released And that's bad. For me, at least :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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