Hard drives became switched

[goshannon]

64installed on c, win 7 later installed an d. dual boot has been working perfectly until
something caused the drives to switch. now win 7 starts ok but looks for all it's files on c, which is locked.
vista starts up fine, and sees all it's files on c as it should.

my windows 7 repair disk, created at start of win 7, does not correct problem, nor does system restore.

4 days of trying to fix leaves this nerd vry humble.

I need help, which will be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

THANKS!

goshannon

 

[Everlong]

Boot in to Vista and download EasyBCD (Just Google EasyBCD and you'll find it). It should display the operating systems installed on your system. See if this is showing the right drives for the operating systems.

Edit: After reading your post more carefully, it seems you can boot in to 7, so you wouldn't need to download this.

Answering SIW2's questions might be able to help us better.

 

[SIW2]

Can you elaborate please?

You can boot into 7 fine?

What drive letter does it declare for itself, and for Vista. ?

How do you mean 7 looks for all it's files on the Vista partition- do you mean it looks for your ( i.e. user ) files on the Vista partition ?

 

[goshannon]

thanks for the help.

easybcd shows vista 64 on c drive

windows 7 IS on L drive. L DRIVE has all of the win 7 programs i downloaded
yet when i run win 7 AND TRY TO START A program it tries to open from disk c rather than L.

easybcd loaded onto disk L CANNOT BE OPENED.

WINDOWS 7 looks for MY ( i.e. user ) files on the Vista partition, DRIVE C

THANKS AGN

 

[goshannon]

Can you elaborate please?

You can boot into 7 fine?

What drive letter does it declare for itself, and for Vista. ?

How do you mean 7 looks for all it's files on the Vista partition- do you mean it looks for your ( i.e. user ) files on the Vista partition ?

WHEN RUNNING WINDOWS 7 i now am unable to use speech recognition, yet find all speech files intact in windows 7 L DRIVE, YET win 7 tries to retreive sapisvr from c drive, which is not available.

FIREFOX WORKs FINE, and i am able to see/send all my email on windows 7. same with vista 64 on c drive, but the bookmarks are different.

many thanks again

 

[chuckr]

WHEN RUNNING WINDOWS 7 i now am unable to use speech recognition, yet find all speech files intact in windows 7 L DRIVE, YET win 7 tries to retreive sapisvr from c drive, which is not available.

FIREFOX WORKs FINE, and i am able to see/send all my email on windows 7. same with vista 64 on c drive, but the bookmarks are different.

many thanks again

SIW2 might be able to help even more if you answered his questions.

Post for him 2 listings:
One from booted Vista,
and one from booted Win 7.

Each listing should show results from:
diskpart
list disk
list volume
exit

Screen captures of Disk Management under
each booted OS would probably help too...

 

[goshannon]

Thank you sir!! EasyBCD is a real pearl.

There are a total of two entries listed in the vista Bootloader. Bootloader timeout: 30 seconds
default OS: windows seven

Entry #1
Name: windows 7
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: Lp:\
Bootloader path:\windows\system 32\winload.exe
Windows directory: \windows

Entry #2

Name: Microsoft Windows vista
BCD ID: {current }
Drives: C:\
Bootloader path:\windows\system 32\window.exe
Windows directory: \windows

This VY humble windows nerd, goshannon, thanks you all again.

CHUCK R
I WILL now get on with
Post for him 2 listings:
One from booted Vista,
and one from booted Win 7.

Each listing should show results from:
diskpart
list disk
list volume

tnx agn

 

[goshannon]

Thank you sir!! EasyBCD is a real pearl.

There are a total of two entries listed in the vista Bootloader. Bootloader timeout: 30 seconds
default OS: windows seven

Entry #1
Name: windows 7
BCD ID: {default}
Drive: Lp:\
Bootloader path:\windows\system 32\winload.exe
Windows directory: \windows

Entry #2

Name: Microsoft Windows vista
BCD ID: {current }
Drives: C:\
Bootloader path:\windows\system 32\window.exe
Windows directory: \windows

This VY humble windows nerd, goshannon, thanks you all again.

CHUCK R
I WILL now get on with
Post for him 2 listings:
One from booted Vista,
and one from booted Win 7.

Each listing should show results from:
diskpart
list disk
list volume

tnx agn

diskpart vista, C\Windows\System32\diskpart.exe

Computer: NEWGORDON-PC

DISKPART>

 

[goshannon]

diskpart on c drive results in C:\Users\NEW ADMINISTRATOR\BACKUPS\08-12-19 0203PM\Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\ia64\Servicing\GlobalInstallOrder.xml

list part on C brings up multiple items, including following, at top of list. Microsoft Office Communications Server
2007 Resource Kit Tools


list volume no results.


on windows 7, the results of drive L were not obtainable,
WHILE THE WIN 7 OS IS ACTUALLY ON DRIVE D.

 

[goshannon]

Can you elaborate please?

You can boot into 7 fine? YES, IT APPEARS to boot into 7 but the 7 user programs are not available

What drive letter does it declare for itself, drive C

BUT easybcd indicates 7 to be on drive L.

and for Vista: DRIVE C, CONFIRMED BY EASYBCD

How do you mean 7 looks for all it's files on the Vista partition- do you mean it looks for your ( i.e. user ) files on the Vista partition ?

goshannon answers:YES, it looks for 7 ( i.e. user ) files on the C drive, the Vista partition

I AM new to this forum and apologize for any incorrect postings
how di i respond to

Can you elaborate please?

your help and feedback is much appreciated
tnx much, goshannon

 

[dmillergv]

When you dual boot, If you select Win 7, it will be designated as the "C" drive for that boot cycle. Your Vista will take another drive designation.
When you boot Vista, Vista will take the "C" designation and Win 7 will be another.
If your two partitions have recognizable Labels then, using "Computer", you can figure which is which.
This is the way it went in earlier releases. Also in earlier releases the "old windows" didn't show and you had to assign a Drive number to it to see it in Win 7.
Sorry, I don't have a dual boot machine, They are all pure Win 7
D I C K Miller

 

[SIW2]

Not necessarily.

My Vista partition is always C, and the 7 partition is always D - irrespective of which is the current boot o/s.

 

[goshannon]

When you dual boot, If you select Win 7, it will be designated as the "C" drive for that boot cycle. Your Vista will take another drive designation.
When you boot Vista, Vista will take the "C" designation and Win 7 will be another.
If your two partitions have recognizable Labels then, using "Computer", you can figure which is which.
This is the way it went in earlier releases. Also in earlier releases the "old windows" didn't show and you had to assign a Drive number to it to see it in Win 7.
Sorry, I don't have a dual boot machine, They are all pure Win 7
D I C K Miller

wow!!!
Thank you very much Dick. That certainly would explain the switches that I see going on in every time I switch operating systems, from vista to Windows 7.

I am presently in the process of installing a new win 7 installation on a new blank hard drive.

I didn't mention in my earlier posts in, realizing later that the problems seem to start six days ago

When my omega 1 GB external hard drive which I was using for backing up, suddenly started Chirping at a rate of around 60 to 70 times per minute, and was no longer readable. I was sure that the problem was a dislodged reader arm on the unit, omega agreed, and I put the new one in today, which works perfectly, but from here on out system restore goes on a four GB DVD, or it may be uploaded to .Symantec off-site storage.

Thanks to everyone, and thank you Dick for the switcheroo mechanism.

Goshannon

 

[goshannon]

Not necessarily.

My Vista partition is always C, and the 7 partition is always D - irrespective of which is the current boot o/s.

Thanks SIW2. I think I'm finally up and running , with a dual boot, But after five days I now find my wife and dogs to be absent .

ROFLMAO,

goshannon

 

[SIW2]

:roflmao:

Glad you got it sorted out

 

[dmillergv]

To prove a point I did the following on a laptop:
Shrunk the X64 partition.
Formatted the new partition and named it X86
Booted X64 and the drives were named C=X64, D=DVD, E=SD card and F= X86
Clean installed Win 7 X86 into the X86 partition
Installing created the dual boot MBR
Booting X86 the drives were listed as C=X86, D=X64, E= DVD and F= SD card
Booting X64 the drives were listed as C=X64, D=X86, E= DVD and F= SD card
Whichever OS is booted, it becomes "C:"
D i c k Miller

 

[goshannon]

To prove a point I did the following on a laptop:
Shrunk the X64 partition.
Formatted the new partition and named it X86
Booted X64 and the drives were named C=X64, D=DVD, E=SD card and F= X86
Clean installed Win 7 X86 into the X86 partition
Installing created the dual boot MBR
Booting X86 the drives were listed as C=X86, D=X64, E= DVD and F= SD card


Booting X64 the drives were listed as C=X64, D=X86, E= DVD and F= SD card
Whichever OS is booted, it becomes "C:"
D i c k Miller

Dick, it looks to me that you have satisfied your hypothesis, which I will remember as "Dick's Rule".
WHEN IN DOUBT, TRY IT OUT.

mny THNKS AGN TO ALL,

goshannon