Help! Vista no longer available to boot up!

dark_threat · 12-04-2006, 10:44 PM

actually, nevermind, the fixed boot record did screw me up, now i can't access that hard drive, it says it needs to be formatted; what a fickle world. oh well, i was going to format everything all over again and start fresh anyway, so here we go.

timothyb89 · 12-05-2006, 05:51 AM

Hm...
Anyway, it seems to me that you wiped Vista and not XP.
To any Windows OS, the drive it is installed on is set to C:\
So, for Vista, the drive it is installed on is C:\ and XP is probably D:\
And for XP, the XP install is C:\ and Vista is D:\

This is my setup at least. The drive letter is really just OS specific. It's not actually part of te hard drive (the drive letter).
Most operating systems (such as Linux or Mac) don't even use drive letters but mount the drive accrding to it's label.

12-05-2006, 05:51 AM	#12 (permalink)
timothyb89 Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 357	Hm... Anyway, it seems to me that you wiped Vista and not XP. To any Windows OS, the drive it is installed on is set to C:\ So, for Vista, the drive it is installed on is C:\ and XP is probably D:\ And for XP, the XP install is C:\ and Vista is D:\ This is my setup at least. The drive letter is really just OS specific. It's not actually part of te hard drive (the drive letter). Most operating systems (such as Linux or Mac) don't even use drive letters but mount the drive accrding to it's label. __________________ And now that I'm running my life support equipment through Windows 95, I'll never have to worry about - beeeeeeeep... Registered Linux User #425668 Registered Linux Machine #333299

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12-04-2006, 10:44 PM	#11 (permalink)
dark_threat New Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 8	actually, nevermind, the fixed boot record did screw me up, now i can't access that hard drive, it says it needs to be formatted; what a fickle world. oh well, i was going to format everything all over again and start fresh anyway, so here we go.