>> IMHO, your biggest problem won't be with copying/ghosting/dd-ing your >> Windows partition: your biggest (in fact, unsurmountable) problem will be >> all your C:\Windows and C:\Documents and Settings and C:\Program Files (and >> similar) references, hard-coded into your Windows Registry. IIRC from my >> (over forever, thankfully!) Windows days, there was no *easy* way to make a >> Registry, built on a C:\ drive to work reliably on a D:\, E:\ and so on. I >> think your best bet is to use the swap (hd0,hd1) command in Grub (the syntax >> is wrong, since I'm quoting from memory, but you surely know what I mean).
>> If beside the drive letters (partition locations) their respective sizes >> are also a problem, just resize them with GParted, it's an *incredibly* >> mature piece of software. > To come up to date a little, Windows can now re-letter drives persistently. > Of course, you do need to boot into it to change the default... but even in > the old days, Windows wouldn't label a drive at all unless it recognised the > filesystem, so you could have one or two Linux partitions ahead of a Windows > one which would still get labelled C:. You could also get away with some > out-of-order partition numbering, at least with the NT series. The only > official way of getting NT4 onto a large drive involved two separate > installations of it and some decidedly dodgy partition ordering, placing a > primary after the extended partition. What you really had to avoid with a > multi-partition Windows installation was adding a second drive containing > one or more primary partitions, the first of which would be auto-lettered > D:, which would totally screw up Windows. > The Vista bootloader bears no resemblance at all to the NT-to-XP version. > There's no boot.ini and in fact no text configuration file. Configuration > must be done with a Microsoft utility. On the plus side, the bootloader is > much more powerful, and among other things can schedule a number of boots to > different OSes. This is useful to remotely dual/multi-boot without getting > stuck in one OS. With Vista and 7 (boot.ini was dropped with the move to Vista), you can edit boot parameters (and boot from non-C disks) with bcdedit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org