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Multiboot Drive Letter Issues


crazyboot23
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Hello,

I have installed multiple operating systems before, but usually I do it first, before installing other volumes and partitions, and have had no problem. Right now I have two drives, one for XP and one for data. I would like to add Vista to XP because some programs require a 64-bit operating system. The problem is that, because of the many partitions I have now, the new Vista partition has to be assigned to drive O (or higher). Will this impose any problem. I can't easily change the drive letter assignments because my XBMC media center libraries will not work with the changed drive letters, so I would need to do a ton of work manually importing new images for the movies for the new shares. Will the dual boot setup work if XP is C; and Vista is O?

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That depends on what boot manager you use.

Some boot managers hide other bootable partitions while booting one OS, thus the booted OS partition will always be the C: drive.

Other boot managers will keep all partitions visible, and therefore leave all drive letters untouched. I think Vista will be fine as drive O:

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