Influencing drive-letter mappings

Hello all,

I was just wondering about something. I have a dual boot system, both
OS-es are windows XP. When I install the second OS (on a different
physical) harddrive then the OS does get installed and maps the
'windows' drive to the letter D.
I have 4 harddisks in total. First is basic windows versions. Second is
for my documents. Third, my downloads, music and video's. And fourth my
second windows installation.
Now My default installation (on C) maps the second and third harddrive
as D and E. This is used by multiple programs. If I want to use these
same programs in my second installation, the drive mapping is different
and thereby letting the programs malfunction.

What I would like to be able to do is influence the driveletter of the
active partition of windows (to F). Is that possible?

Thanks in advance,
Eddie.

You can change the letter of any drive OTHER than the system one.

Unfortunately it is impractical to change the letter of the system drive, as
there are so many references to it in the registry. This, for installations
where Windows does not reside on C: the only fix is a clean install.

The letter adopted by the system drive is determined by whether or not it is
the active boot drive/partition when Windows is installed. To ensure that the
Windows partition is always C: ensure that the partition you intend to
install to is the active one, before running the setup.

"eturfboer" wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was just wondering about something. I have a dual boot system, both
> OS-es are windows XP. When I install the second OS (on a different
> physical) harddrive then the OS does get installed and maps the
> 'windows' drive to the letter D.

Thanks Anteaus, that helps me alot!

Thanks again.

Anteaus wrote:
> You can change the letter of any drive OTHER than the system one.
>
> Unfortunately it is impractical to change the letter of the system drive, as
> there are so many references to it in the registry. This, for installations
> where Windows does not reside on C: the only fix is a clean install.
>
> The letter adopted by the system drive is determined by whether or not it is
> the active boot drive/partition when Windows is installed. To ensure that the
> Windows partition is always C: ensure that the partition you intend to
> install to is the active one, before running the setup.
>
> "eturfboer" wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I was just wondering about something. I have a dual boot system, both
>> OS-es are windows XP. When I install the second OS (on a different
>> physical) harddrive then the OS does get installed and maps the
>> 'windows' drive to the letter D.
>