[access-uk] Re: question about the system's drive letter
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:50:13 -0000
Hi James,
In theory yes, but I had a problem when I installed several programs, where
even though they were installed to the correct drive, they insisted that
they couldn't find Drive C:.
All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
James Scholes
Sent: Sunday 17 February 2008 19:19
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: question about the system's drive letter
I know which type of programs you mean, but no, programs don't look for the
C drive, they look for the partition or drive that actively hosts the copy
of windows that the program is being run from. So, if I had 2 copies of
windows, 1 on drive b and 1 on drive c, I could run a program from drive b
and it would install to drive b, and the same thing with drive c.
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From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:58 PM
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: question about the system's drive letter
> Hi Chris,
>
> Actually, this is going to be a real problem, because some older
> programs look specifically for the C: drive. I think the only answer
> is to reformat, and pay more attention to the drive lettering <Smile>.
>
> All the best
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Chris Hallsworth
> Sent: Sunday 17 February 2008 18:52
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: question about the system's drive letter
>
> Hi, I guess that so long as the c drive isn't set as the active
> primary partition, you shouldn't have any problems. By "active
> primary" I mean that when you turn on your computer, it tries to boot
> from the first available partition, and of course if there's nothing
> on there, or nothing to indicate that an operating system exists, then
> it'll just stop dead and probably display an error message. Only
> sighted assistance could get you out of this trouble. Hope that helps.
>
> Lyn & Twinny wrote:
>> Hi list,
>> I recently re-installed my OS and for some strange unknown reason the
>> letters of my systems and my backup drives were interchanged.
>> Therefore windows is now installed on D and my backup drive became my
>> C drive. I would like to know whether or not this is a major problem
>> and, if this is, is there a way to change my system's drive back to C
>> without having to re-install windows all over again? I must say that
>> so far, everything is working perfectly but some people tell me that
>> I could have problems and others say I should not worry about it.
>> Feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot for your time
>> and
> effort.
>> You all take care,
>> Lyn & Twinny.
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