disk management system drive issue

I have one 500 GB drive in three partitions: C, D, and E. I am attempting to delete D (which is empty) in Disk Management, so that I may extend C (where Vista is located) into it. However, D, for whatever reason, is marked 'System', while C is marked only as 'Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump'. What can I do to make C the 'System' partition? I thought this was determined solely by where the operating system was installed.
Vista was once located on D, but D has long since been formatted and Vista reinstalled on C.

I had only formatted D (which had actually been E before installing Vista on what had been D relettered all three automatically).
However, I was just a few hours ago able to do everything I needed to within the Vista installation disc from boot. My goal in all of this was to get back down to a single full-drive partition, and the installation disc allowed me to delete Partition 3, then Partition 2, extend Partition 1 to encompass the drive, then install Vista.
This did result in me doing something that I wanted to avoid: installing the operating system somewhere other than the centre of the drive. I honestly do not know how much this will affect anything, but I will try to rearrange it later.
"bob t" wrote:

I am noticing wierd behavior with a drive and am wondering if hardware info is stored on C: I had a Vista Installation on I: when I had a Linux install on D: I formatted I: to reinstall Vista after never getting my graphics card to work correctly (Nvidia 5200) but before installing Vista, I ran XP setup and deleted the D: etx3 partition and formatted NTFS in case the ext3 file system was hanging something in Vista. Now D: is never mounted unless I ask Device Manager to detect hardware changes. I install the drivers, the correct drivers, and every bootup D: is not mounted so I was wondering if there was some file on C: from install #1 that never got overwritten and now I see your problem with Windows thinking systemroot is on D: So when you deleted D: did you also format C: ? I would hate to format C: because I have Windows 2000 and XP also installed but I am also thinking that I will have to to get Windows Vista working,
"Saerain" wrote in message I have one 500 GB drive in three partitions: C, D, and E. I am attempting to delete D (which is empty) in Disk Management, so that I may extend C (where Vista is located) into it. However, D, for whatever reason, is marked 'System', while C is marked only as 'Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump'. What can I do to make C the 'System' partition? I thought this was determined solely by where the operating system was installed.
Vista was once located on D, but D has long since been formatted and Vista reinstalled on C.

I am noticing wierd behavior with a drive and am wondering if hardware info is stored on C: I had a Vista Installation on I: when I had a Linux install on D: I formatted I: to reinstall Vista after never getting my graphics card to work correctly (Nvidia 5200) but before installing Vista, I ran XP setup and deleted the D: etx3 partition and formatted NTFS in case the ext3 file system was hanging something in Vista. Now D: is never mounted unless I ask Device Manager to detect hardware changes. I install the drivers, the correct drivers, and every bootup D: is not mounted so I was wondering if there was some file on C: from install #1 that never got overwritten and now I see your problem with Windows thinking systemroot is on D: So when you deleted D: did you also format C: ? I would hate to format C: because I have Windows 2000 and XP also installed but I am also thinking that I will have to to get Windows Vista working,
"Saerain" wrote in message

I have one 500 GB drive in three partitions: C, D, and E. I am attempting to delete D (which is empty) in Disk Management, so that I may extend C (where Vista is located) into it. However, D, for whatever reason, is marked 'System', while C is marked only as 'Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump'. What can I do to make C the 'System' partition? I thought this was determined solely by where the operating system was installed.
Vista was once located on D, but D has long since been formatted and Vista reinstalled on C.