Re: A Dual-boot question; I thought C was always the partition with the running OS


"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Al Dykes" wrote:
> >
> > I've never screwed with booting Windows from more
> > than one disk or partition, before, but I was under the
> > impression that C: would be pointed to whatever
> > partition had the running system.
> >
> > Now I'm playing with a system that has two disks.
> > They show up as C and E. C has XP, E has server 2003.
> > Boot.ini has entries for both but when I puck the second,
> > HOMEDRIVE is E. Which is right, but breaking lots of
> > setup scripts. Grrr.
> >
> > Am I immagining the boot-partition-is-always-called-C thing?
>
>
> Have you tried this: Install the Server 2003 on a separate
> hard drive withOUT the WinXP hard drive connected. The
> Server 2003 will then call its partion "C:" Local Disk. Then
> modify the WinXP single-boot boot.ini file so that it will
> dual-boot. (Since it's already dual-booting, you can leave
> boot.ini as it is now.) When WinXP starts up, it will see the
> Server 2003 partition as "E:", but who cares? When
> Server 2003 starts up, it will call itself "C:" and it will call the
> WinXP partition "E:", but again, who cares? This will be
> a situation analogous to dual-booting between different
> clones of the same OS. Each will call itself "C:" and the
> other clone some other letter, but who cares?
>
> *TimDaniels*

Could you explain why the server installation would appear
as drive C: while both disks are connected? Have you tried
this for yourself? Just because Windows Server was installed
on drive C: does NOT mean that it will stick to this letter
with both disks connected!


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