System Reserved Partition has Drive Letter After Applying a WIM Image with ImageX

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Published on 2012-11-04T13:16:42Z Indexed on 2012/11/05 11:09 UTC
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I have installed Windows Vista on a computer using ImageX from WinPE. I followed the instructions here for partitioning the hard drive, creating a 300 MB system partition and using the rest of the drive for a Windows partition.

The install has worked perfectly apart from the fact that the system partition has been assigned the drive letter C: and the Windows has been assigned the drive letter D:. I would like the system drive to have no letter and the Windows partition to have the drive letter C:.

I think I have managed to figure out why it is doing this. See my answer below. Can anyone confirm this?

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