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Disk Management fails in changing C/[a]-driveletters
Edna E...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp general Thx Richard, Suggest in Vista that they put the word "Available" in there. A cpl things went quirky when I changed the Drive letters hence I thought this was too. "Richard Urban" wrote: The list shows "available" drive letters Edna.

SATA Drive unrecognized in Vista Ultimate
Mac Stephen Petrowski" wrote: go to the disk manager and change the drive letters in vista then format the empty drive simple as that "Mac (Croatia)" One more question before I hit the delete button. If I delete the C partition, my XP parition, will my Vista partition suddenly decide that it's the C partition

Another Drive Letter Question
Si on veut installer VISTA sur un DD où il existe déjà une partition formatée, cette partiton sera refusée si elle n'est pas en NTFS. /N:sectors] [/P:passes] FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q] [/P:passes] FORMAT volume [/Q] volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name.

Vista installing with XP boot drive question
The data and files on that second ('slave') hard drive will remain as they are. You will just not be able to boot from it, not run Windows from it, but still be able to access it from within Vista--with whatever drive letter you might like to assign to it. -- Maxwell Bluemeanie "Warren"

XP drive letter question
You need microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general What you need to do is different between Vista and XP 64-bit To have XP-64 enumerate as C it must be on the first active primary partition on the first drive in boot priority the FIRST time you BOOT into the newly installed system. "Howard" <howdy0...@yahoo.com> wrote

Drive lettering
Thank your for your attempt but I can not change any drive letter in disk manager, I get a messsage: "Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your volume. .... One more question before I hit the delete button. If I delete the C partition, my XP parition, will my Vista partition suddenly decide that it's the C

Vista and iTunes update error message
I've responded to each of your questions below in your text. Thanks ahead of time for the help! On a side note, I have a 2GB USB acting as a Boostdrive (or A ReadyBoost drive does claim a "drive" letter, so adding one to an existing setup MIGHT change the letters by which Vista refers to existing drives.

Change Hard Drive & Optical Drive Letters
Mac (Croatia) MacCroa...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup No, I have ONE drive with three partitions, C, D, .... "John Barnes" wrote: Windows sets the drive letter of each volume it sees in the registry on first boot, (all drive letters assigned to volumes are assigned by

Vista 32-bit only sees 128gb of large hard drive
Therefore formatting it is out of the question. I try to study the problem further last night. It seem that my anti-virus scanner Macfee is able to scan it. The whole HDD are able to be read by the AV but in my windows explorer I can only just see the drive letter F (Access Denied): I think there is some kind of

Vista 32-bit only sees 128gb of large hard drive
Do you know its drive letter, its device name, its color? Nick Rivers wrote: Thanks so far.... I am able to enumerate all DISKS and CDROMs using those SetupAPI in question. Search for a DISK and CDROM which have the same parent device instance handle. There is a shorter way but this will not work under Vista.

Drive Letter question
Uwe Sieber m...@uwe-sieber.de microsoft public win32 programmer kernel As I wrote in my first answer: Get the device numbers of all drive letters and match them in question. Search for a DISK and CDROM which have the same parent device instance handle. There is a shorter way but this will not work under Vista.

Question about installation Digital Cameras in Windows Vista
Snacko Sna...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Yeah, I did that. A complete format in Vista writes zeroes over the entire On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:31:00 -0800, Snacko <Sna...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: Excellent question. The drive letter is G. Disk Management shows

Does this dual-boot installation plan work?
Would the 1st partition on the 3rd HDD become E:; and the 1st partition on the 4th HDD become F:; and then the drive letters in each of the non 1st partitons of hard drives 1 New partitions can only receive unused drive letters. This is true even if you add new drives that are already partitioned and formatted.

Readyboost performance
There is no Drive letter assigned even when I rescan disks. I did not have any issues with the initial install (have installed various Windows OS's, The only other thing I noticed out of the ordinary was that the drive in question (formerly E:) AND the C: drive are recognized by the Disk Manager as SCSI, odd,

Adding Pictures with FP2000
John Barnes jbar...@email.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup You can make your C partition 'active' then run startup repair and it will create "John Barnes" wrote: Windows sets the drive letter of each volume it sees in the registry on first boot, (all drive letters assigned to volumes are

Vista & Floppy Drive Letter
Timothy Daniels TDani...@NoSpamDot.com microsoft public windows vista general microsoft public windowsxp general "Howard" wrote: I have 2 harddrives (HD1 and HD2) Windows XP 32bit is currently install on HD1 HD1 is C drive HD2 is D drive I want to install windows xp 64bit so that HD2 is C drive HD1 is D drive to

Disk Management fails in changing C/[a]-driveletters
Snacko Sna...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista hardware_devices Excellent question. The drive letter is G. Disk Management shows partition capacity at around 700 Gb, but explorer only sees 128gb. One half of Windows see all the disk, the other half of Windows sees only 128Gb. "andy" wrote:

Hard drive setup...
Would the 1st partition on the 3rd HDD become E:; and the 1st partition on the 4th HDD become F:; and then the drive letters in each of the non 1st partitons of hard drives 1 & 2 be moved 2 letters down along with the DVD burner? Also, if I installed an IDE hard drive for Win 98SE, can this be installed after the

Vista Folder Icon Question ?
John John audetw...@nbnet.nb.ca microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Other than 'WOS-up'? is there a question in your convoluted post? From what I can decipher you are trying to change the drive letter onto which Windows is installed, you cannot do that, if you want Windows on a different drive letter you

Vista 32-bit only sees 128gb of large hard drive
That means that if you Inseert a new disk to the system to install Vista on the system assigns automatically a drive letter to your disk (say I:). helpful starting point with some good references for details To the question whether all this is worth the bother, why not use the Vista Backup and restore instead?