A Dual-boot question; I thought C was always the partition with the running OS


I've never screwed with booting Windows from more than one disk or
partition, before, but I was under the impression that C: would be
pointed to whatever partition had the running system.

Now I'm playing with a system that has two disks. They show up as C
and E. C has XP, E has server 2003. Boot.ini has entries for both but
when I puck the second, HOMEDRIVE is E. Which is right, but breaking
lots of setup scripts. Grrr.

Am I immagining the boot-partition-is-always-called-C thing?

Thanks

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