Donald S
Member
I have a question about drive letters assigned to the current boot drive.
I am running Win7 on one drive, and WinXP on another. The Win7 drive has the Win7 partition, and also has a "system reserved" partition for troubleshooting. That partition currently has no drive letter.
When I boot into Win7, the assigned drive letters are Windows 7 (C
(System, Boot); DVD (D
; and WinXP (E
;
When I boot into WinXP, the assigned drive letters are WinXP (D
(Boot); Windows 7 (System) (E
; and DVD (F
My problem is with the drive letter assigned to the WinXP drive when I have booted into that operating system. Some software requires a C: drive to be present, large enough to accomodate setup files. Consequently, I sometimes have installation issues with some software. The "System Reserved" partition will take a C: drive letter (which was originally what EasyBCD gave it when I set up the dual boot), but when that is the case, it's partition is too small to accommodate setup files, and I don't want to change that partition.
Is there a way I can set things up so that the current operating system (boot) drive always has the letter C: assigned?
Thanks.
I am running Win7 on one drive, and WinXP on another. The Win7 drive has the Win7 partition, and also has a "system reserved" partition for troubleshooting. That partition currently has no drive letter.
When I boot into Win7, the assigned drive letters are Windows 7 (C
When I boot into WinXP, the assigned drive letters are WinXP (D
My problem is with the drive letter assigned to the WinXP drive when I have booted into that operating system. Some software requires a C: drive to be present, large enough to accomodate setup files. Consequently, I sometimes have installation issues with some software. The "System Reserved" partition will take a C: drive letter (which was originally what EasyBCD gave it when I set up the dual boot), but when that is the case, it's partition is too small to accommodate setup files, and I don't want to change that partition.
Is there a way I can set things up so that the current operating system (boot) drive always has the letter C: assigned?
Thanks.