Problem while making a dual boot system

Thanks Adam and salt grass. So as I understand, in dual boot, it will show C:/ for whichever Win OS I choose.

Emma

Hello Emma,

Yes, you could have 3 OS's as I have, Vista, 7 & 8, so whatever OS I choose to boot to, it will show as C:\ and the other 2 show the drive letters I assigned.
Example;
Right now I'm using Windows 8 showing as my C:\ drive, Windows 7 is showing as D:\, Vista is showing as E:\ both of which I assigned.
If I boot to Vista, Vista will show as C:\, Windows 7 will show as D:\ and Windows 8 will show as E:\ and so-on.

If you need more help, don't hesitate to ask.

Don

Since you still seem to be refusing to attach a Disk Management picture, and I don't just was to guess about the configuration, I will mention these things to see if it helps.

When you are booting into Windows 7 and need to add an XP boot option, you have to put the XP boot files in the Windows 7 System (active) partition.

Then you need to point the XP bootloader to those files. So the Device for the XP entry will say the same thing as the Windows 7 Boot Loader entry, which is probably partition=C: , or if you have a System Reserved Partition, it might be something different, like \Device\HarddiskVolume1, which means the first partition shown in Disk Management.

The boot.ini file has to be modified, because it needs to point to the XP OS partition, which in your case seems to be on another drive, rdisk(1) instead of rdisk(0).

I have attached a couple of pictures, which might help, but if you do not have a System Reserved partition, pretend it is not there and move the System and Active designations to the OS (boot) partition and the \Device\HarddiskVolume1 to C: .

I did an install as you stated you did yours by preformatted a partition and giving it a drive letter I: but it still shows C: when you are booted into it. The only time I have seen different partition letters used as OS letters is when a system had been cloned.