Dual boot installation has moved drive letters

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  1. SIW2
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    You never have probs with OS on another letter than C, Si?
    No, never - apart from that macrium laugh. Nobody else is going to use X anyway.

    Win8?

    Don't get me started.

    They could have made something good - with a few compromises that everybody would be ok with.

    Instead, they have made a hash of it.

    Unless the rtm turns out quite different - you never know, MS might have got the message.
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  3. AddRAM
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    I agree with ya, W8 is Horrible. JMO.
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  4. toolman59
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    Changed drive letters


    Going back some years it was always recommended to install "Oldest OS" first and so on eg. W98, XP and W7. Never had a problem with this and all my data and backup partitions looked exactly the same in each OS without drive letter adjustments. It was only when I changed computers at the end of last year, which allowed me to boot from the Windows DVD that I saw a completely different result from a booted install .
    Some day I may get bitten with my method, then I will be back here reviewing these posts.
    Thanks again everyone.

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