nvidia video card drivers vista beta 2 build 5384

OK, I have 2 Hard drives (SATA) Non- raid, 1 for XP and 1 for Vista Beta 2 ......Why when I install the nvidia drivers for Vista it wants to install on my C: Drive (XP OS Drive )? ..If i tell it to install on D: (Vista OS) The files just install in D: no " NVIDIA" folder like with XP ,and now I have nvidia Vista drivers on both my C: And D : drives and I don't see a nvidia driver in add/remove in vista grrrrrrrrrr.. I think its conflicting with Vista . I have tried to have patience but jezze I'm losing my mind . To uninstall the Vista drivers I will have to uninstall all my drivers from C: "thats my XP drivers too" and vista Is'nt even on that Har drive .. lol my god this sucks

When you run the initial exe to install the drivers it unpacks them by default to the C:\NVIDIA folder. Most manufacturers unpack the files to the temp folder in your Users\%user%\Local Settings\Temp directory. I imagine that Nvidia does what they do to make it easy for us to find them should we need to for manual installation, reading any text files or whatever.
These are the driver installation files but not the installed drivers that the OS uses. Basically it's the unzipped package. You can direct these to where ever you want to and then the driver installation will commence from that directory (which will then install the drivers to the OS related directories.) You can then delete the C:\NVIDIA directory without any issues.
Also at this time there isn't an uninstall option in the Programs control panel app for Nvidia. The drivers are beta so perhaps in the future they will be there since the drivers feature set isn't complete. You can check if the drivers are installed and what version by running dxdiag from the Run... command and selecting the Display tab. Version should be 6.14.0010.8861, the last four digits correspond with the driver version 88.61.
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OK, I have 2 Hard drives (SATA) Non- raid, 1 for XP and 1 for Vista Beta 2 .....Why when I install the nvidia drivers for Vista it wants to install on my C: Drive (XP OS Drive )? ..If i tell it to install on D: (Vista OS) The files just install in D: no " NVIDIA" folder like with XP ,and now I have nvidia Vista drivers on both my C: And D : drives and I don't see a nvidia driver in add/remove in vista grrrrrrrrrr.. I think its conflicting with Vista . I have tried to have patience but jezze I'm losing my mind . To uninstall the Vista drivers I will have to uninstall all my drivers from C: "thats my XP drivers too" and vista Is'nt even on that Har drive .. lol my god this sucks

I have noticed the Vista seems to use a different HD designation than XP. Dual boot config: Clean XP install on C: XP saw D: drive as unformatted raw; XP saw the E: drive as data disk. Clean Vista install on D: After both installations this is what I see now. On XP booted session; my C drive is XP; my data disk is D: and Vista is E: On Vista booted session my C drive is Vista; my data disk is E: and XP is D:
As you describe I assumed that Vista was on D where I installed it, but it seems to give the C: designation to the drive that booted the OS. Did not notice this on my previous dual booted XP and XP 64, but who knows.
Cheers, Joe
Joe
"Rob M." wrote:

OK, I have 2 Hard drives (SATA) Non- raid, 1 for XP and 1 for Vista Beta 2 .....Why when I install the nvidia drivers for Vista it wants to install on my C: Drive (XP OS Drive )? ..If i tell it to install on D: (Vista OS) The files just install in D: no " NVIDIA" folder like with XP ,and now I have nvidia Vista drivers on both my C: And D : drives and I don't see a nvidia driver in add/remove in vista grrrrrrrrrr.. I think its conflicting with Vista . I have tried to have patience but jezze I'm losing my mind . To uninstall the Vista drivers I will have to uninstall all my drivers from C: "thats my XP drivers too" and vista Is'nt even on that Har drive .. lol my god this sucks

I have noticed the Vista seems to use a different HD designation than XP. Dual boot config: Clean XP install on C: XP saw D: drive as unformatted raw; XP saw the E: drive as data disk. Clean Vista install on D: After both installations this is what I see now. On XP booted session; my C drive is XP; my data disk is D: and Vista is E: On Vista booted session my C drive is Vista; my data disk is E: and XP is D:
As you describe I assumed that Vista was on D where I installed it, but it seems to give the C: designation to the drive that booted the OS. Did not notice this on my previous dual booted XP and XP 64, but who knows.
Cheers, Joe
Joe
"Rob M." wrote:

OK, I have 2 Hard drives (SATA) Non- raid, 1 for XP and 1 for Vista Beta 2 .....Why when I install the nvidia drivers for Vista it wants to install on my C: Drive (XP OS Drive )? ..If i tell it to install on D: (Vista OS) The files just install in D: no " NVIDIA" folder like with XP ,and now I have nvidia Vista drivers on both my C: And D : drives and I don't see a nvidia driver in add/remove in vista grrrrrrrrrr.. I think its conflicting with Vista . I have tried to have patience but jezze I'm losing my mind . To uninstall the Vista drivers I will have to uninstall all my drivers from C: "thats my XP drivers too" and vista Is'nt even on that Har drive .. lol my god this sucks

Yes, Vista will see the drives differently than XP. Vista calls whatever drive you install it on C: and will then bump each drive letter up one to compensate. If you boot back to XP (on a dual boot system), then XP will enumerate the drives as it always has. Not sure if this is a bug or by design, but it has happened on all of the pc's that I have installed Vista on so far (about 6 machines) all with Vista Ultimate.

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I have noticed the Vista seems to use a different HD designation than XP. Dual boot config: Clean XP install on C: XP saw D: drive as unformatted raw; XP saw the E: drive as data disk. Clean Vista install on D: After both installations this is what I see now. On XP booted session; my C drive is XP; my data disk is D: and Vista is E: On Vista booted session my C drive is Vista; my data disk is E: and XP is D:
As you describe I assumed that Vista was on D where I installed it, but it seems to give the C: designation to the drive that booted the OS. Did not notice this on my previous dual booted XP and XP 64, but who knows.
Cheers, Joe
Joe
"Rob M." wrote:
OK, I have 2 Hard drives (SATA) Non- raid, 1 for XP and 1 for Vista Beta 2 .....Why when I install the nvidia drivers for Vista it wants to install on my C: Drive (XP OS Drive )? ..If i tell it to install on D: (Vista OS) The files just install in D: no " NVIDIA" folder like with XP ,and now I have nvidia Vista drivers on both my C: And D : drives and I don't see a nvidia driver in add/remove in vista grrrrrrrrrr.. I think its conflicting with Vista . I have tried to have patience but jezze I'm losing my mind . To uninstall the Vista drivers I will have to uninstall all my drivers from C: "thats my XP drivers too" and vista Is'nt even on that Har drive .. lol my god this sucks