Windows 7 Thinks Its On Drive C? -

Well, I installed Windows 7 and made a special Z partition for it. Whenever I use my primary start (Vista), it can see Windows 7 on my Z drive, as well as itself on C and Data on D. When I start it up on Windows 7, however, it reads that it is drive C and sees Data on D, my Vista (all my stuff is saved on this one) partition is invisible... Any way to tell Windows 7 it is on the Z drive and not C? gt;_lt;

It depends how you dedicated the space. If you created the Z partition using Vista, then ONLY vista knows that drive letter. If you installed Windows 7 by booting from its own DVD, Windows 7 has its own partition manager built into it. It would then display all of the partitions that you have created using vista. HOWEVER, it will have different drive letters because the drive letters are ONLY seen by the operating system on which they were created. So, if you created a partition and changed its drive letter to Z, then it is seen as a SECONDARY partition in vista. Vista boots from its primary partition, which automatically labels itself, drive C because that is where it boots from. You cannot change the drive letter of a booted operating system. Like I stated above, the letters are DEPENDENT on the operating system that they were created from. Vista sees it as Z, because IT labeled it as Z. Windows 7 sees it as C for 2 reasons: 1.) It is the primary boot partition for WINDOWS 7 2.) the vista partition is labeled as another letter because it is not the primary boot partition for Windows 7 So really, you can t Change them at all. The only thing you can change is the drive letter of the OPPOSITE operating system. (windows 7 changing vista drive letter, vice versa) All in All, no matter what you do, each operating system CANNOT see the drive letters of the other one - they re not OS independent. Good Luck. Hope this helps. Email me for more assistance.

windows always saves its stuff to c so u will only see your windows 7 drive in windows 7 as c. to see your vista partition in windows 7, click start, right click computer, click manage, click storage, click disk management ( its disk management local if your windows 7 is one a different partition as the drive with vista), right click on the partition that has vista on it. click change drive letter and paths, click add. as soon as you give your vista drive a letter, in windows 7, you will be able to see all your vista stuff in windows 7