Partitions are assigned drive letters in reverse?

[hplsbyufan]

I removed my EIDE drive from my self-built system. This left only my RAID1 SATA drives. I removed the first partition, then recreated it, but on install, that partition comes up as "D", and the second partition comes up as "C". I tried again since it may have been caused by removing the partition, but this time did not remove it. I still have the same issue. Naturally since each of these is a system or boot volume, I can't change it in the gui. 2 questions:

1. How can I fix the drive letter designations?
   
2. How can I fix the stupid 8mb unpartitioned space?
   

I've removed the 8mb unpartitioned space before by formatting with a tool outside WinXP setup, but I'm wondering if there is a way to do this with WinXP setup.

[gamehead200]

1. By using a 3rd-party tool such as Partition Magic (however, it might break the OS [not quite sure]).

2. 8MB isn't really a lot. Why would you even bother?

[jaclaz]

The letter assignment should be due to the type of partition.

Please find here some related info:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=23484

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=67395

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=53177

jaclaz