-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Velly Intwesting
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:18:12 -0400
Think Registry here. You can change the drive letters in Acronis, but the
registry for XP will still be pointing to the previous drive letter for much
of the files it needs. It will probably not boot up s a result. I have
utilities that help me repair these issues when it comes to data
drives/volumes, but I learned a long time ago to not even try with an OS
volume. I only got it to work once and it was never 'right'. I ended up
formatting and reinstalling from scratch.
I'm well aware of MS's protocol, but I plan ahead of time to intentionally
prevent it from being followed on my systems. For instance, only the main
hard drive should ever have a Primary partition that could be made Active.
AND I ensure that all of the partitions I will need from that main drive are
made before I install the first OS. All other physical drives are
partitioned into Logical volumes within an Extended partition (no
Primaries). Depending on the results I get on a 'first run', I may also
disconnect anything other than the one optical drive I'm using to install
the OS's to prevent them from taking letters. This means all drive letters
used for those additional drives will be forced to 'follow' the letters
given to the OS's and anything else I have on the first drive.
Peace,
Gman
http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php
"The entire future of humankind is yet to be written"
----- Original Message -----
From: <recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:33 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Velly Intwesting
> Me too. But Windows has a protocol it follows.
>
> In my situation shouldn't it be
>
> C: booted partition
> D: Data drive
> E: the other OS partition on the first drive
>
> See this Microsoft article:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/51978
>
> Do you know what Acronis Disk Director or other utility does to reassign
> drive letters? I think it would be safe to reassign the drive letters
> wouldn't it?
>
> That article applies to DOS and Windows through ME. Can't find anything
> for
> XP and Vista.
>
> Don
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