how to have 2 drives with same letter

Hi -

I have an unusual situation. I have a system drive with 3 partitions - C/D/E
set up as XP boot/Vista boot/Programs. I have 2 more drives in a RAID 0
array set as drive F.

What I want to do is break the RAID and copy the contents to each
*individual* drive so I will have a mirror image.

Now, I want to set the system up so that XP accesses F(1) and Vista accesses
F(2) but each OS must see the drive as F.

Now I know I could go in and manually change the drive letter before booting
but I wonder - could I setup an autoexec.bat file for one OS that would
contain SUBST command.

Or, boot into XP and set F(1) to F: and F(2) to X - it won't be used. Then
boot into Vista and set F(2) to F: and F(1) to X.

Thanx,

Vic
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"Vic Baron" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi -
>
> I have an unusual situation. I have a system drive with 3 partitions -
> C/D/E set up as XP boot/Vista boot/Programs. I have 2 more drives in a
> RAID 0 array set as drive F.
>
> What I want to do is break the RAID and copy the contents to each
> *individual* drive so I will have a mirror image.
>
> Now, I want to set the system up so that XP accesses F(1) and Vista
> accesses F(2) but each OS must see the drive as F.
>
> Now I know I could go in and manually change the drive letter before
> booting but I wonder - could I setup an autoexec.bat file for one OS that
> would contain SUBST command.
>
> Or, boot into XP and set F(1) to F: and F(2) to X - it won't be used. Then
> boot into Vista and set F(2) to F: and F(1) to X.
>
> Thanx,
>
> Vic
> --
> There are 10 kinds of people - Those who understand binary and those who
> don't
>

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:54:07 -0800, "Vic Baron" <>
wrote:

>
>Hi -
>
>I have an unusual situation. I have a system drive with 3 partitions - C/D/E
>set up as XP boot/Vista boot/Programs. I have 2 more drives in a RAID 0
>array set as drive F.
>
>What I want to do is break the RAID and copy the contents to each
>*individual* drive so I will have a mirror image.
>
>Now, I want to set the system up so that XP accesses F(1) and Vista accesses
>F(2) but each OS must see the drive as F.
>
>Now I know I could go in and manually change the drive letter before booting
>but I wonder - could I setup an autoexec.bat file for one OS that would
>contain SUBST command.
>
>Or, boot into XP and set F(1) to F: and F(2) to X - it won't be used. Then
>boot into Vista and set F(2) to F: and F(1) to X.

Just set the drive letter in Disk Management under XP and Vista. Once
you do that, the drive letters won't change.

>
>Thanx,
>
>Vic