Fixing Shortcuts in W7


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I am not sure I understand M$ logic,

They made it so that C:\ is the drive letter assigned to partition with Windows.

So if you have two Windows Operating Systems installed, you have them both installed on C:\ which is not true or possible.

So that where it is confusing, as C:\Program Files (x86) on OS #1 =/= C:\Program Files (x86) on OS #2.

EDIT: I do not know why it is done like this or whether or not this works w. dual booting something newer than XP64 w. 7x64

So shortcuts do not work and that is kind idiotic. Anyway to fix this (aside from having an exact copy of first partition on the second partition OR hardlinking everything over)? Or is there a way to make shortcuts work on both M$ OSes?

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The drive letters are assigned by the OS and within that OS, not set for the partition itself. If you want all the drive letters to be the same you can at least in Vista and later start the installation from within your other OS from which you want to copy the drive letters. If that is not an option one can always do as I did and set the letter one wants for the OS partition by making an unattended install where you specify that. Then you can reassign all the other drive letter after installation in Disk Management.

I wouldn't call it idiotic since for it to work it would mean the OS you are installing had to poke around the files from the older OS, understand it's format for listing what everything is mounted as etc. simply to find out the drive letters for you during install.

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