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Originally posted by Snaal Sevool Snr.
the letter B is reserved for floppy drives... for me anyway...
Yes that is usually the case.
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Originally posted by Snaal Sevool Snr.
I've had no experience whatsoever of using Vista, but if you can, find a way to boot from Vista to XP, then see if you can get in that way.
The only way you can do that is to reformat your harddrive, as you can't install an older operating system without formatting
(usually)
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Originally posted by Snaal Sevool Snr.
It's most likely Vista saw the disk structure on that drive and presumed it was corrupt because the structure was ORIGINALLY meant for XP while Vista thought C:\ was the XP (the only time when it was actually right) disk, and the B:\ drive for Vista.
XP and Vista both use the NTFS filesystem, so I'm not sure what you mean here... but, as he said, he only upgraded, so Vista would just have installed over the top of XP. It is possible to dual boot two windows installations (ie. have XP and Vista installed on different partitions), but I dont see the point.
For further information:
If you have two windows installations on different partitions on your harddrive eg.
Partition0 - XP
Partition1 - Vista
When you boot your computer into XP, the partitions will be read like this:
Partition0 - C:\
Partition1 - D:\ (or whatever drive letter you have associated with this partition within XP)
However when you boot your comptuer into Vista, the partitions will be read like this:
Partition0 - D:\ (or whatever drive letter you have associated with this partition within Vista)
Partition1 - C:\
The partition that you have the running Windows OS installed in is always read as the C:\ partition, and all others are usually assigned letters in sequence after that (D:\ E:\ F:\ etc.).
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Originally posted by Snaal Sevool Snr.
This is precisely the reason WHY I don't buy anything until ALL of the bugs are fixed.
Good luck finding a Windows OS that doesn't contain ANY bugs. Even XP has bugs
and Vista is still in BETA, and you can't buy it yet anyway
it's a part of the Customer Preview Program (CPP) (or something along those lines) and is downloadable from the microsoft website (assuming you have signed up for the program). (There have only been two releases on the CPP: Beta 2 and RC1, so you are not officially a BETA tester if you're in the CP Program.)
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Originally posted by Snaal Sevool Snr.
It also makes known the fact that Vista isn't [QUITE] compatible with XP.
Vista doesn't have to be compatible with XP, as it is the upgraded Operating system from XP. Though if you are talking in the way of backwards compatibility for applications and the like, then no it's not totally backwards compatible yet.
Well that was a marathon.
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