I use dual partition with XP installed on both. I am trying to reinstall one of the partition (main drive) which I would like to keep it as C: drive. However, during windows installation setup, it keeps assigning the other partition as C: and this one to D:.

Once installed, I can't switch the drive letters since they are boot/system drive. I can use it as it is, but I'd rather switch the letters even if it meant reinstalling (which I've done several times already because I tried changing letters in registry).

There's gotta be a way to assign drive letters during the install, right? Please help me???

Edited September 26, 200718 yr by jsj6791

You have to set that partition as "active" before install if you want it to be the "C:".

Did you do the first dual boot install yourself ? W

You have to set that partition as "active" before install if you want it to be the "C:".

Did you do the first dual boot install yourself ? W

You're right, it wasn't installed on active partition. I ended up using partition magic to install it and it's fine now.

Thanks.