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I'd just reimage.
Unless you wanna see where C: lands when you delete the 100mb partition and write the bootloader into XP. Of course you've got to reimage to do that, too.
This is the diskpart command I used to delete the Acer recovery partition that wouldn't come out with any partition software. Run it from Win7 cmd as administrator or the Win7 installer Repair command prompt, then startup repair 3 times, boot into 7 and run EasyBCD or bcEdit to reinstall the XP bootloader.
This is from another forum here:
I think he is right that you would need to merge the free space into the first partition since that space contains the boot sector of the HDD.
Your XP is in the first partition, right?
You installed XP first and Win7 second?
I still cannot figure out why XP would change its drive letter over to the boot partition, unless XP was installed last and snafued.
Ok that is the problem then. Since you installed XP second, it obviously assigned C: to the boot partition, and I doubt now it would change it's drive letter.
I get my best advice from Technet. When I recently asked in several forums about changing a system drive letter with repair install, it got answered (No!) by a MS MVP expert on Technet.
They will help you sort this out.