Probably because everyone was complaining about it's very existence but it's turning out to be a very useful addition if one has the primaries to spare; here's an excellent reason for its creation.
System Reserved : Multi Boot from Logicals'
Yes you can boot the newer OS on a logical drive as long as teh active drive is a primary - I found that out during the Beta test days, by accident.
I had my original vista partition and several betas of win7 running at the same time and only when in the disk management, for some reason noticed that win7 was happily running on a logical drive which i'd installed to by mistake
When you install Windows 7 / Vista, if no other partition is created as "Active" it will place the boot store on the first primary partition.
Removing the Drive Letter under computer management solved it for me! Very quick and easy fix.
Changing drive letter or removing it worked...............in disk managment uttility
Can we also do this with the other drives, and at that time data will be safe or not?
Ans plz.....!
You can remove and reassign drive letters from/to any partition that isn't the currently running Windows system. No data will be harmed.
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