How can I reassign the Primary Partition?

[Sumanji]

Hey,

I just reformatted my dad's laptop, but now the C:\ is show as logical drive, and the D:\ (with backups, pictures etc.) is showing as the system primary partition. Windows boots fine, but I'm just a bit annoyed by this to be honest is there any way to reassign C:\ as the primary partition? I can't find a way of doing this from disk management.

If I boot with a Vista/XP disc and then delete the D:\ partition, will it automatically reassign C:\ as primary? Or will that just nuke the whole disk structure and destroy my freshly formatted machine, haha?

Cheers,

Su

 

[SpaghettiOs]

Primary partition doesn't mean it is the 'most important' or 'first'. It is just a type of partition meaning it only contains one filesystem.

Your main C: drive is a logical drive, meaning it is part of an extended partition. An extended partition can contain many logical drives, whereas you can only have up to 4 primary partitions on a drive.

 

[Sumanji]

I ended up nuking the partition by accident, and had to start from scratch again....

Oops

Su