Vista - Install windows 2008 on to 2nd partition and use it as D: drive?

Is it possible to get the Windows 2008 install DVD to use the 2nd partition
of a drive as D:?

I've tried, really, I have. But it just does not want to recognize the
partition as anything other than C:

Regardless of whether the first partition is present, or how any of them are
formatted. I cannot, for the life of me, get the installer to set up an
install the way I want it.

And, to make matters worse, the "TrustedInstaller" pseudo-group blocks any
attempts to search and replace in the registry to clean up the pathnames.
I've done the registry edits for MountedDevices. That coupled with registry
clean up usually takes care of things. But since the installer is mucking
things up that's not possible.

So, besides speculating, does anyone have definite steps to take to get
windows 2008 server installed on the 2nd partition of a drive and boot as
D:?

Thanks,
-Bill Kearney

Sorry bill as far as I know all flavours of windows must have the system drive as C:
the only way I know of to get past the trusted installer is as the FULL administartor account in safe mode

Have you tried the process described in the last reply at
<http://www.vistax64.com/vista-installation-setup/131636-vista-64-dual-boot-changing-drive-letter.html>?

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:01:39 -0400, "Bill Kearney"
<wkearney99@xxxxxx> wrote:

"andy" <bogusaddress@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:bsdtc4pd25g8shoconuc67q3fvjb49n583@xxxxxxYes, as I indicated. But the MountedDevices hack doesn't entirely work. It
runs afoul of leaving registry entries behind that point to C:\ paths. And
those registry entries (some 509 of them) can't be fixed because only the
"TrustedInstaller" owns them.

The solution, unfortunately, is to install twice. Once to a throwaway
partition, then again once booted from it. Only then can you set up the
drives properly. This is damned irritating, it never had this problem in
the past. One more example where Vista does things differently "just
because it can"? Not exactly progress.