Hi,
I have setup my PC to have dual booting with Win XP MC OS on a SATA hard drive and Win XP Pro OS on a separate (IDE) hard drive.
I have no problems booting up in either OS, however, the problem is that the drive letterings are DIFFERENT depending on which OS is working. I am concerned because I may run into problems when I try to restore a drive after a failure etc - I could mix things up and end up ERASING the wrong drive !!
Let me be more specific in describing my set up since this might be critical in your assisting me.
Like I said, the Win XP MC OS is on a SATA drive which is on my Intel motherboard. This drive has 2 partitions on it.
The Win XP Pro OS is on an IDE hard drive (with 1 partition) and is mounted as a MASTER on an IDE cable with another hard drive mounted as Slave on the same IDE cable. The Slave hard drive has 3 partitions.
This IDE cable is attached to an Adaptec ASH-1233 ULTRA ATA/133 PCI card since the Intel board had only 1 IDE slot which is being used by my 2 optical drives (If I hook up the optical drives to the PCI card the computer was telling me in the boot menu that there were no optical drives - so I had to hook them up directly to the motherboard).
As I said, despite the "confusion" above, I have no problem booting up in either OS and running the 'computers'
The letterings I get are as follows :-
(I am listing them so that the drives correspond in each OS)
Drive Lettering seen in
XP MC XP Pro
Floppy A: A:
Disk #1 (SATA)
partition 1 (MC OS is here) C: C:
partition 2 E: F:
Disk #2 (IDE Master) G: D:
(Pro OS is here)
Disk #3 (IDE Slave)
partition 1 H: E:
partition 2 I: G:
partition 3 J: H:
DVD-RW D: I:
CD-RW F: J:
The first question is why the differences and how are they accounted for?
The real question though is - can I change the lettering and if so how?
Another question is do I need to? and if not then how can I avoid problems later if I leave them the same way?
Thanks in advance for any help I can get with this confusion !!
I have setup my PC to have dual booting with Win XP MC OS on a SATA hard drive and Win XP Pro OS on a separate (IDE) hard drive.
I have no problems booting up in either OS, however, the problem is that the drive letterings are DIFFERENT depending on which OS is working. I am concerned because I may run into problems when I try to restore a drive after a failure etc - I could mix things up and end up ERASING the wrong drive !!
Let me be more specific in describing my set up since this might be critical in your assisting me.
Like I said, the Win XP MC OS is on a SATA drive which is on my Intel motherboard. This drive has 2 partitions on it.
The Win XP Pro OS is on an IDE hard drive (with 1 partition) and is mounted as a MASTER on an IDE cable with another hard drive mounted as Slave on the same IDE cable. The Slave hard drive has 3 partitions.
This IDE cable is attached to an Adaptec ASH-1233 ULTRA ATA/133 PCI card since the Intel board had only 1 IDE slot which is being used by my 2 optical drives (If I hook up the optical drives to the PCI card the computer was telling me in the boot menu that there were no optical drives - so I had to hook them up directly to the motherboard).
As I said, despite the "confusion" above, I have no problem booting up in either OS and running the 'computers'
The letterings I get are as follows :-
(I am listing them so that the drives correspond in each OS)
Drive Lettering seen in
XP MC XP Pro
Floppy A: A:
Disk #1 (SATA)
partition 1 (MC OS is here) C: C:
partition 2 E: F:
Disk #2 (IDE Master) G: D:
(Pro OS is here)
Disk #3 (IDE Slave)
partition 1 H: E:
partition 2 I: G:
partition 3 J: H:
DVD-RW D: I:
CD-RW F: J:
The first question is why the differences and how are they accounted for?
The real question though is - can I change the lettering and if so how?
Another question is do I need to? and if not then how can I avoid problems later if I leave them the same way?
Thanks in advance for any help I can get with this confusion !!