Windows XP sees windows 7 "system reserved" drive as C:

exactly what the title says, i installed XP after windows 7 and now it sees system reserved as C: (which means i can't install drivers because the drivers for my computer is hardcoded to install to C:) D:

please don't suggest answers that format the windows 7 drive

samuria said:

Welcome to the forum you must always install the oldest o/s first as it will have no knowledge of new windows try fixboot Just a moment...

was about to attempt to delete this post before seeing this reply.

yeah, i should've known that. but i've done the newest os first before and it usually works out fine. (clearly not right now)
will attempt to just reinstall with a system restore of my entire win7 partition.

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any way to put full system backups on removable disks? windows 7 just says my removable drive (removable drive has 57 GiB, used space on windows 7 is 49.8 GiB) isn't a valid backup location

SIW2 said:

MS thinks flash drives are not reliable backup locations.

i literally don't have any other drives so is there any way to force windows to backup to there anyway

PWnS2009 said:

exactly what the title says, i installed XP after windows 7 and now it sees system reserved as C:

The active partition gets drive letter C in XP setup, and it remains that way after installation. Change the designated XP partition to active before installing.

SIW2 said:

have you a dvddrive ? I expect you could use hasleo instead Free Windows Backup Software for Windows in 2025 - Hasleo Backup Suite

"literally don't have any other drives" includes CDs and DVDs.
as for that other program, no thanks. i prefer pain and doing it the official way :P

update: i reinstalled XP with a different SATA driver and now this problem in particular is fixed, but now there's a different issue that's even more related to windows 7 now