Dual Booty

[howeird]

So now I have the big PC set up to dual boot XP and Vista, having partitioned my non-RAID drive 40GB and 200GB respectively. While I can see all my drives in XP, Vista will only show the non-RAID drives. Installing Intel's Storage Monitor in Vista shows me the array, and everything looks normal, but I still can't see anything on the drive. "Access denied" still. So before leaving for work I set the machine to XP and started running the check/repair widget.

Meanwhile it looks like the problem may a change in Vista permissions on a single-user machine. XP by default makes the sole user an administrator. Vista does not. A web search shows maybe what I have to do is either find a way to make myself admin, or re-assign ownership of the RAID array to my Vista user name. We'll see.

One side effect of Vista installation is I found the bug which the readme mentioned - it fried my USB drive. No biggie, it's an old USB 2.0 120MB memory stick, all it had on it was the Intel Vista drivers which I re-downloaded, and my Quicken backup from the laptop, which I'll just back up again next time I update Quicken's data. MicroCenter has 2GB USB drives for less than I paid for this puppy.

Comments

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

Sure there is, their driver installer needs process elevation and there are likely ways to accomplish what they're doing that would be cleaner. Ask yourself this, why doesn't Intel's installer set the proper ownership to begin with.

I'm not saying MS is right... strictly speaking, as an Apple employee, I think I'm supposed to mock Vista. *shrug*

But there are likely things Intel could do on their end to avoid this situation for you.