crazy emergency install that flopped drive letters

This is the weirdest thing.
Wife's computer wouldn't work
She had XP Pro.

I tried Repair, no joy
I tried fixing it via Safe Mode, no joy.

it would run in Safe Mode but in Normal mode, no joy.
I tired restore points, they wouldn't work even though I had scheduled
restore points once a day.

Trying to restore just froze and couldn't select a restore point.

Out of Desperation, I installed Vista Premium which is mine from my
computer.
That worked, sort of.
For some reason, D: which had lots of saved pictures and important files is
now called C:
C:, which was the OS XP installation location is D:

It's like they flopped during the Vista install.

And I'm expecting any moment to tell me that the Vista I installed is
already installed on a different computer. (this one that I'm writing this
on)

So can I fix the anomaly of c and d being reversed?
Can I just pay the fee for the second computer to have vista?

I'm in the process of again backing up those files to a outboard terra byte
drive for safety.
So I could, if I had to, format c&d and reinstall

Anybody have an idea of my best approach.

please and thank you

It would require a purchase of Vista in order to run it legally on your
other PC
Are they two seperate drives or partitions of a single drive?

"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> This is the weirdest thing.
> Wife's computer wouldn't work
> She had XP Pro.
>
> I tried Repair, no joy
> I tried fixing it via Safe Mode, no joy.
>
> it would run in Safe Mode but in Normal mode, no joy.
> I tired restore points, they wouldn't work even though I had scheduled
> restore points once a day.
>
> Trying to restore just froze and couldn't select a restore point.
>
> Out of Desperation, I installed Vista Premium which is mine from my
> computer.
> That worked, sort of.
> For some reason, D: which had lots of saved pictures and important files
> is now called C:
> C:, which was the OS XP installation location is D:
>
> It's like they flopped during the Vista install.
>
> And I'm expecting any moment to tell me that the Vista I installed is
> already installed on a different computer. (this one that I'm writing this
> on)
>
> So can I fix the anomaly of c and d being reversed?
> Can I just pay the fee for the second computer to have vista?
>
> I'm in the process of again backing up those files to a outboard terra
> byte drive for safety.
> So I could, if I had to, format c&d and reinstall
>
> Anybody have an idea of my best approach.
>
> please and thank you

More than willing to purchase, in fact I already have it on order.

It was an emergency install to save files, data, etc.

and yes they were two different hard drives both sata.
Originally C was for Windows only with all data and programs installed to D.



"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
news:...
> It would require a purchase of Vista in order to run it legally on your
> other PC
> Are they two seperate drives or partitions of a single drive?
>
> "FireBrick" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> This is the weirdest thing.
>> Wife's computer wouldn't work
>> She had XP Pro.
>>
>> I tried Repair, no joy
>> I tried fixing it via Safe Mode, no joy.
>>
>> it would run in Safe Mode but in Normal mode, no joy.
>> I tired restore points, they wouldn't work even though I had scheduled
>> restore points once a day.
>>
>> Trying to restore just froze and couldn't select a restore point.
>>
>> Out of Desperation, I installed Vista Premium which is mine from my
>> computer.
>> That worked, sort of.
>> For some reason, D: which had lots of saved pictures and important files
>> is now called C:
>> C:, which was the OS XP installation location is D:
>>
>> It's like they flopped during the Vista install.
>>
>> And I'm expecting any moment to tell me that the Vista I installed is
>> already installed on a different computer. (this one that I'm writing
>> this on)
>>
>> So can I fix the anomaly of c and d being reversed?
>> Can I just pay the fee for the second computer to have vista?
>>
>> I'm in the process of again backing up those files to a outboard terra
>> byte drive for safety.
>> So I could, if I had to, format c&d and reinstall
>>
>> Anybody have an idea of my best approach.
>>
>> please and thank you
>
>

When installing a new o/s to a system with multiple hd's & card readers, its
often prudent to disconnect all other drives/readers, leaving only the
single hd & a single cd/dvd drive (You only need to disconnect the pwr cords
to the drives) That ensures a C drive installation

"FireBrick" <> wrote in message
news:...
> More than willing to purchase, in fact I already have it on order.
>
> It was an emergency install to save files, data, etc.
>
> and yes they were two different hard drives both sata.
> Originally C was for Windows only with all data and programs installed to
> D.
>
>
>
> "DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
> news:...
>> It would require a purchase of Vista in order to run it legally on your
>> other PC
>> Are they two seperate drives or partitions of a single drive?
>>
>> "FireBrick" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> This is the weirdest thing.
>>> Wife's computer wouldn't work
>>> She had XP Pro.
>>>
>>> I tried Repair, no joy
>>> I tried fixing it via Safe Mode, no joy.
>>>
>>> it would run in Safe Mode but in Normal mode, no joy.
>>> I tired restore points, they wouldn't work even though I had scheduled
>>> restore points once a day.
>>>
>>> Trying to restore just froze and couldn't select a restore point.
>>>
>>> Out of Desperation, I installed Vista Premium which is mine from my
>>> computer.
>>> That worked, sort of.
>>> For some reason, D: which had lots of saved pictures and important files
>>> is now called C:
>>> C:, which was the OS XP installation location is D:
>>>
>>> It's like they flopped during the Vista install.
>>>
>>> And I'm expecting any moment to tell me that the Vista I installed is
>>> already installed on a different computer. (this one that I'm writing
>>> this on)
>>>
>>> So can I fix the anomaly of c and d being reversed?
>>> Can I just pay the fee for the second computer to have vista?
>>>
>>> I'm in the process of again backing up those files to a outboard terra
>>> byte drive for safety.
>>> So I could, if I had to, format c&d and reinstall
>>>
>>> Anybody have an idea of my best approach.
>>>
>>> please and thank you
>>
>>
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