Assign Windows installation to a different letter than C?

There was a time when I was dual booting Windows 98 and Windows 2000. Windows 98 was installed on partition 1 formatted as FAT32. Windows 2000 was on partition 2 formatted as NTFS. Windows 2000 saw itself on D and the Windows 98 partition as C. Windows 98, not recognizing NTFS, saw only itself. Installation of Windows 2000 was started from within Windows 98 and directing the installation to the other partition. I don't remember having any problems due to this configuration.

Well written software doesn't make assumptions about where things are installed.

If you start the Windows installer from within Windows (while Windows is running) to install another Windows OS, that new Win OS will not get the C drive letter.
The C drive letter is in use by the current running OS, so the installer will use some other unused letter.
I wouldn't install an OS this way, and i'm not recommending it, i like always having the Win OS partition as the C partition.

If you boot with the Windows installation media to install Windows, each OS will get the C drive letter whenever it is started.

What's the topic ?
Installation and Setup, or Security ?
Maybe there should be a new thread in the Security subforum for security guru's ?

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DavidE said:

What's the topic ?
Installation and Setup, or Security ?
Maybe there should be a new thread in the Security subforum for security guru's ?

The OP hasn't responded to any of the replies offered so far.

:)

Well it's already been answered really. Was curious if malware could be fooled, but it seems not. And Megahertz made a good point that you don't need a full path, you can just use variables %

Many years ago, before HDDs, computers used 2 big cardboard (ie floppy) disks - one for the programs, one for data. These were A and B. When HDDs came along, they were given the letter C.

> interesting fact of the day