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

"Al Dykes" wrote: 

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? 


   Have you tried this:  Install the Server 2003 on a separate
hard drive withOUT the WinXP hard drive connected.  The
Server 2003 will then call its partion "C:" Local Disk.  Then
modify the WinXP single-boot boot.ini file so that it will
dual-boot.  (Since it's already dual-booting, you can leave
boot.ini as it is now.)  When WinXP starts up, it will see the
Server 2003 partition as "E:", but who cares?  When
Server 2003 starts up, it will call itself "C:" and it will call the
WinXP partition "E:", but again, who cares?  This will be
a situation analogous to dual-booting between different
clones of the same OS.  Each will call itself "C:" and the
other clone some other letter, but who cares?

*TimDaniels*
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