How to change drive letter in XP when dual boot with 7?

Tews said:

If you can successfully boot into 7 and XP, what is the difference... is this a performance issue, or just an annoyance??

That's what I was wondering too.

sup3rsprt said:

Make a screenshot in Windows 7.

I just realize it's not English so you may not be able to understand.
and in 7 it's just fine.

Did you notice this bit in the KB?

this is not recommended, especially if the drive letter is the same as when Windows was installed

Tews said:

If you can successfully boot into 7 and XP, what is the difference... is this a performance issue, or just an annoyance??

Some programs will defaultly install or run in c drive so they can't function if xp is not running in c:

Tews said:

sup3rsprt said:

Tews said:

If you can successfully boot into 7 and XP, what is the difference... is this a performance issue, or just an annoyance??

That's what I was wondering too.

If it aint broke, dont fix it...

If there's no way to put xp back to c:,I can only use the image to recover xp then leave the problem there.

SIW2 said:

Did you notice this bit in the KB?

this is not recommended, especially if the drive letter is the same as when Windows was installed

Yes,so I made an image first.
I wonder how pbcopter succeeded?

justi said:

sup3rsprt said:

Make a screenshot in Windows 7.

I just realize it's not English so you may not be able to understand.
and in 7 it's just fine.

of course I could understand it. If 7 is fine, that wasn't the point. Nevermind..

justi said:

gregrocker said:

sup3rsprt said:

SIW2's method was to get rid of the drive letter on the system boot partition. But Windows XP itself will still be tied to the D: drive.

My dual boot XP's have often been C: when I'm in XP and D: when I'm in 7.

The issue seems to be why the 100mb partition is lettered C: in XP. The solution to delete it still seems the best, unless there are other ideas.

You mean the OS you log onto is always c:?
I also think so but I doubt if I delete it then recover xp,7 will become c: in xp because I mark it as active.

Yes log onto C: whether XP or Win7. Other times it has been C:XP and D:Win7. I think with the C: freed up it will default to XP as active partition. But you won't know unless you try. It's just a 20+ minute reimage, and you can't wear it out.