Let's say I have one computer and I want to dual boot Windows 98 and XP. I have 2 partitions and I installed 98 on the primary partition. Then I install Windows XP on the second partition and I have both operating systems working fine. :)

Well here is a problem. Windows XP detects the system drive as D Drive. How do I set it as C Drive even though it is on the second partition?

You don't. Not with MS boot logger. If you think about it, it makes sense. Say you want to play tunes while in either OS. You install the tunes on the Win98 partition. When in Win98 all is cool. Winamp or whatever finds your tunes where they should be. Now boot to the other OS. If it is going to be C: then your tunes can't be on C:. Get it?
I think with a 3rd party boot program the OS you boot to would always be the C drive. Why do you need the WinXP partition to be listed as C:?

Well, it makes sense that the Windows System Drive is installed on the C: instead of the D: or the E: . I mean if I install certain programs, it will think that the system drive is C: . I see what you are saying when you told me that my Media Files or the so called, tunes will be on the same drive assigment on both operating systems, but I am more concerned about the system drive being a drive other than C: . I mean it doesn't matter but to me, I feel uncomfortable with the system drive being D: on the second operating system.

... adjust your comfort level perhaps?

I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

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umm, are you trying to tell me to be odd? i dont wanna be odd, i wanna be even, so you telling me to adjust my comfort level probably won't work. so is there a way of setting the windows nt installation to install on the second partition, but as the c:?

In Partition Magic there is a utility called pqboot.exe. You run it from a floppy diskette or as I did you make a 40meg primary dos partition and run it from there. It allows you to set one of 4 primary partitions on a disk to be c:

NT based OS's are not completely fooled since the boot.ini give the correct partition number.

It makes no difference to the OS if its on c: or z:.

The system drive is the drive containing the boot files ntldr, ntdetect, boot.ini or msdos.sys/io.sys and command.com.

When you multiboot the system drive IS C: !!!
Don't confuse that with the BOOT DRIVE which in the case of XP is d:

Don't forget now, in MSspeak, system is where the boot files are and boot is where windows/winnt folder resides.

Might check out online the many articles on multibooting. That was old school. New school is virtualization with the freebies from MS and Vmware. You load the other OS's on a host OS like XP.

Are you ready for where Microsoft wants you to go today?