How to change drive letter of active/boot partition

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Pete

Have multi-booting setup on my laptop at home, but i want to change "D:" in
vista to be S drive, though I can't because it is marked as a boot drive/the
active drive
 
Hi Pete,

Simply put: you can't. The drive letter assigned to either the system or
boot drives cannot be altered. In most systems these are the same drive
(commonly C:), but in multiboot situations they frequently are two separate
volumes such as you have encountered. D: is the active volume and houses the
boot files, changing the assigned letter would render the system unbootable.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
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