Dual Boot setup - 98SE, 2000, XP

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I am dual booting all 3 OSes. After installing 98 and
2000, I have a Win98 "C" drive, a CDROM "D" drive, a
CDRW "E" drive, and a Windows 2000 "F" drive. I am ready
to install Windows XP, but when I am done, I would like my
Windows XP OS to be recognized as a "C" drive since this
is going to be my primary OS. The problem is that at
setup, both Windows 2000 and XP do not allow for changing
of the drive letters. And once booted into the OS, you can
not change the drive letters of the boot drive. So, my
question for all those who might know, is it possible to
change the drive letters in 2000 and/or XP to show the
boot drive as the "C" drive????
 
Richard Perry said:
I am dual booting all 3 OSes. After installing 98 and
2000, I have a Win98 "C" drive, a CDROM "D" drive,
a CDRW "E" drive, and a Windows 2000 "F" drive.
I am ready to install Windows XP, but when I am done,
I would like my Windows XP OS to be recognized as
a "C" drive since this is going to be my primary OS.
The problem is that at setup, both Windows 2000 and
XP do not allow for changing of the drive letters.
And once booted into the OS, you can not change
the drive letters of the boot drive. So, my question
for all those who might know, is it possible to change
the drive letters in 2000 and/or XP to show the
boot drive as the "C" drive????
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You can't do it with the Microsoft multiboot loader. It would have been
smarter to use a third-party boot manager, which does true multibooting, not
the half-baked method Microsoft calls multibooting. Microsoft takes a
totally different approach and it's incompatible with real boot managers, so
you can't just swap a third-party boot manager in place of the Microsoft
one. (See the "Multibooting Principles" section of my website at
www.goodells.net/multiboot for an detailed explanation.)

Unless you're willing to reinstall Win2000, the closest you can come is to
use a third-party boot manager to choose between XP (which can be "C:") and
"others". When you choose "others", you'll get a second boot menu -- the
one you already have to select 98 or 2000.
 
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