I have a question, how come in WindowsXP the Drive is H: that Windows7 is installed on, yet on Windows7 it decided to rename H: to C upon installing, I wanted to ask this weeks ago :)
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H:\ isn't the common boot drive letter for winxp ,C: is ,as it …
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I have a question, how come in WindowsXP the Drive is H: that Windows7 is installed on, yet on Windows7 it decided to rename H: to C upon installing, I wanted to ask this weeks ago :)
H:\ isn't the common boot drive letter for winxp ,C: is ,as it is with most OS's you install ,so win7 was told to format and install so it did the normal thing and used the default drive letter c:\
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H:\ isn't the common boot drive letter for winxp ,C: is ,as it is with most OS's you install
Well, not every OS. Windows, DOS and OS/2 are the only ones. Linux/Unix systems dont use that method of naming.
Siberian
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Oh, Windows7 decided to re-organize the driver letters as it sees fit.
candaceusa
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Thats new news to me. Window 7 is doing lot many changes. And this time related to drive letters.
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