Drive letter problem with dual boot XP

stainlessstan · 24-01-2009, 9:55 AM

I have successfully installed W7 on a new hdd to dual boot with XP. However, I seem to have a problem with drive letters. On my original disk I have two partitions: Drive C has XP and Drive Z has all my apps and files. I formatted the second disk with one partition (drive E) and left the rest unallocated. I've installed W7 on drive E and all shows up correctly in my computer when I boot into XP but if I boot into W7, drive E shows as C and drive Z shows as D. Drive C doesn't appear at all. I can change the drive letter of D back to Z but because C is the os partition it won't let me change it. Help

anyone.

Singh400 · 24-01-2009, 1:05 PM

This is normal behaviour leave it as it is. Do not change the drive letters paths. Especially the ones for C:

stainlessstan · 02-02-2009, 8:35 AM

If links are allowed here is one with the answer to my question.
Fix Missing Hard Drive Partition of Windows XP Vista in Windows 7