Build 7000 - Only 3 of 4 partitions show?

[JWhipple]

I'm running Build 7000 on my Acer laptop. I currently have XP Pro, XP Home, Vista Ultimate (x32) and Win7 x32 (7000) running on it.

Each OS is installed onto it's own 80GB partition. I can see each partition as it's own drive under all the other OSs for a total of 4 drives, but under Win7 I see only the Win7, XP Pro and Vista Ultimate drives - 3.

Is this normal, or do I have something misconfigured?

Thanks in advance!

 

[JWhipple]

Disregard this question - I found the solution here: Fix Missing Hard Drive Partition of Windows XP Vista in Windows 7

or

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3741-hard-disk-partition-letter-missing-windows-7-fix.html

 

[Digger]

wow, if that drive goes..... so goes the pc

but i gotta ask ya.... why in the name of all (fill in the blank) would you have both XP home and pro installed?

 

[JWhipple]

I do tech support work for applications that my company sells, and due to the large selection of different PCs that our apps land on, as well as large selection of OSs, I have both installed so that I can test things out on one versions versus the other.

Our application also uses Word for a lot of it's functions, so, I have Word 2003 installed on Home and Word 2007 installed on Pro for testing purposes. Yes, I realize that you can have both installed at the same time, but that really irritates our application, so, we tell the customers not to do it as well

 

[Digger]

ummm..... ok.... well ... i gotta ask you again.....

what have you found that worked on home that didnt work on pro, or vice versa? just seems redundant to me is all

 

[JWhipple]

Our applications don't always install right on one OS or the other. In one case, we had to create a new user type on XP home. In another case, they coded the installshield to look for XP home but not XP pro, so, running the install on XP pro simply resulted in an error stating that it wasn't a supported OS.

Long story really, but, we have definitely found the need to have multiple versions of the same OS for testing.