Move BCD store to other partition

Hello

In advance I created 3 partitions and intended them to use in this way:

partition 1: NTFS primary and active/boot (2GB)
partition 2: NTFS primary (50GB)
partition 3: NTFS primary (100GB)

However, when I begin the installation of Windows Vista, it installs vista
as I choose and it's installing it on the 2nd partition, which is OK!!
The BCD-store has been created on partition 1 as it should be, so far so good.

When I startup my windows vista , I notice he has made following drive letters

Partition 2 : C-drive (windows vista system drive)
Partition 1 : D-drive (boot drive with BCD store)
Partition 3 : E-drive (data drive)

I want to rename the D-drive to B: and make it hidden.

How can I do this? Because every time I want to change drive letter from D:
to B: I get errors.

Thanks for your rewarded suggestions.

Best Regards

Nick Wouters
Belgium

Hi Nick,

Don't try either. If you make the active partition hidden (and you'd have to
use a third party boot manager for this), the system won't boot. Plus, you
cannot change the drive letters assigned to either the boot or system
volumes. This is by design.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Nick Wouters" <Nick > wrote in message
news:3B452687-B6D1-4A30-80AB-...
> Hello
>
> In advance I created 3 partitions and intended them to use in this way:
>
> partition 1: NTFS primary and active/boot (2GB)
> partition 2: NTFS primary (50GB)
> partition 3: NTFS primary (100GB)
>
> However, when I begin the installation of Windows Vista, it installs vista
> as I choose and it's installing it on the 2nd partition, which is OK!!
> The BCD-store has been created on partition 1 as it should be, so far so
> good.
>
> When I startup my windows vista , I notice he has made following drive
> letters
>
> Partition 2 : C-drive (windows vista system drive)
> Partition 1 : D-drive (boot drive with BCD store)
> Partition 3 : E-drive (data drive)
>
> I want to rename the D-drive to B: and make it hidden.
>
> How can I do this? Because every time I want to change drive letter from
> D:
> to B: I get errors.
>
> Thanks for your rewarded suggestions.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Nick Wouters
> Belgium

Hallo Rick

Ok, that's clear. I will not put the BCD-partition hidden.
Is there really no possibility to place the BCD-store on a drive called B:,
we deliver installations for our customers and they are very well-trained
that the D: is only user-owned data instead of System-data!

So, does this mean it is really NOT possible or just not preferable?

Best regards

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> Don't try either. If you make the active partition hidden (and you'd have to
> use a third party boot manager for this), the system won't boot. Plus, you
> cannot change the drive letters assigned to either the boot or system
> volumes. This is by design.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Nick Wouters" <Nick > wrote in message
> news:3B452687-B6D1-4A30-80AB-...
> > Hello
> >
> > In advance I created 3 partitions and intended them to use in this way:
> >
> > partition 1: NTFS primary and active/boot (2GB)
> > partition 2: NTFS primary (50GB)
> > partition 3: NTFS primary (100GB)
> >
> > However, when I begin the installation of Windows Vista, it installs vista
> > as I choose and it's installing it on the 2nd partition, which is OK!!
> > The BCD-store has been created on partition 1 as it should be, so far so
> > good.
> >
> > When I startup my windows vista , I notice he has made following drive
> > letters
> >
> > Partition 2 : C-drive (windows vista system drive)
> > Partition 1 : D-drive (boot drive with BCD store)
> > Partition 3 : E-drive (data drive)
> >
> > I want to rename the D-drive to B: and make it hidden.
> >
> > How can I do this? Because every time I want to change drive letter from
> > D:
> > to B: I get errors.
> >
> > Thanks for your rewarded suggestions.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Nick Wouters
> > Belgium
>
>

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> Don't try either. If you make the active partition hidden (and you'd have to
> use a third party boot manager for this), the system won't boot. Plus, you
> cannot change the drive letters assigned to either the boot or system
> volumes. This is by design.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Nick Wouters" <Nick > wrote in message
> news:3B452687-B6D1-4A30-80AB-...
> > Hello
> >
> > In advance I created 3 partitions and intended them to use in this way:
> >
> > partition 1: NTFS primary and active/boot (2GB)
> > partition 2: NTFS primary (50GB)
> > partition 3: NTFS primary (100GB)
> >
> > However, when I begin the installation of Windows Vista, it installs vista
> > as I choose and it's installing it on the 2nd partition, which is OK!!
> > The BCD-store has been created on partition 1 as it should be, so far so
> > good.
> >
> > When I startup my windows vista , I notice he has made following drive
> > letters
> >
> > Partition 2 : C-drive (windows vista system drive)
> > Partition 1 : D-drive (boot drive with BCD store)
> > Partition 3 : E-drive (data drive)
> >
> > I want to rename the D-drive to B: and make it hidden.
> >
> > How can I do this? Because every time I want to change drive letter from
> > D:
> > to B: I get errors.
> >
> > Thanks for your rewarded suggestions.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Nick Wouters
> > Belgium
>
>

Hallo Rick

Ok, that's clear. I will not put the BCD-partition hidden.
Is there really no possibility to place the BCD-store on a drive called B:,
we deliver installations for our customers and they are very well-trained
that the D: is only user-owned data instead of System-data!

So, does this mean it is really NOT possible or just not preferable?

Best regards

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> Don't try either. If you make the active partition hidden (and you'd have to
> use a third party boot manager for this), the system won't boot. Plus, you
> cannot change the drive letters assigned to either the boot or system
> volumes. This is by design.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Nick Wouters" <Nick > wrote in message
> news:3B452687-B6D1-4A30-80AB-...
> > Hello
> >
> > In advance I created 3 partitions and intended them to use in this way:
> >
> > partition 1: NTFS primary and active/boot (2GB)
> > partition 2: NTFS primary (50GB)
> > partition 3: NTFS primary (100GB)
> >
> > However, when I begin the installation of Windows Vista, it installs vista
> > as I choose and it's installing it on the 2nd partition, which is OK!!
> > The BCD-store has been created on partition 1 as it should be, so far so
> > good.
> >
> > When I startup my windows vista , I notice he has made following drive
> > letters
> >
> > Partition 2 : C-drive (windows vista system drive)
> > Partition 1 : D-drive (boot drive with BCD store)
> > Partition 3 : E-drive (data drive)
> >
> > I want to rename the D-drive to B: and make it hidden.
> >
> > How can I do this? Because every time I want to change drive letter from
> > D:
> > to B: I get errors.
> >
> > Thanks for your rewarded suggestions.
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Nick Wouters
> > Belgium
>
>

If these are all IDE or SATA, you should be able to change the B partition
as active if it is a primary partition, then you can do a startup repair.
Be sure you know how to reset the active partition using your install disk.
Also, many have reported having to run startup repair several times. 1 has
reported that startup repair still recognised the original BCD store, but
that was a mixed IDE SATA system and the BIOS on some MOBOs make this a
problem unless the IDE is disconnected.

"Nick Wouters" <> wrote in message
news:C9B53E60-90BB-48A5-86DB-...
> Hallo Rick
>
> Ok, that's clear. I will not put the BCD-partition hidden.
> Is there really no possibility to place the BCD-store on a drive called
> B:,
> we deliver installations for our customers and they are very well-trained
> that the D: is only user-owned data instead of System-data!
>
> So, does this mean it is really NOT possible or just not preferable?
>
> Best regards
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> Don't try either. If you make the active partition hidden (and you'd have
>> to
>> use a third party boot manager for this), the system won't boot. Plus,
>> you
>> cannot change the drive letters assigned to either the boot or system
>> volumes. This is by design.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Nick Wouters" <Nick > wrote in message
>> news:3B452687-B6D1-4A30-80AB-...
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > In advance I created 3 partitions and intended them to use in this way:
>> >
>> > partition 1: NTFS primary and active/boot (2GB)
>> > partition 2: NTFS primary (50GB)
>> > partition 3: NTFS primary (100GB)
>> >
>> > However, when I begin the installation of Windows Vista, it installs
>> > vista
>> > as I choose and it's installing it on the 2nd partition, which is OK!!
>> > The BCD-store has been created on partition 1 as it should be, so far
>> > so
>> > good.
>> >
>> > When I startup my windows vista , I notice he has made following drive
>> > letters
>> >
>> > Partition 2 : C-drive (windows vista system drive)
>> > Partition 1 : D-drive (boot drive with BCD store)
>> > Partition 3 : E-drive (data drive)
>> >
>> > I want to rename the D-drive to B: and make it hidden.
>> >
>> > How can I do this? Because every time I want to change drive letter
>> > from
>> > D:
>> > to B: I get errors.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your rewarded suggestions.
>> >
>> > Best Regards
>> >
>> > Nick Wouters
>> > Belgium
>>
>>

Thanks,I'll have a try