I guess it’s probably the lack of practice of some sort. Or maybe it’s just that what I’ve learnt before have somehow escape me. Something so simple as re-installing windows escalated to not just one but five re-installations. All because the drive letter allocation somehow didn’t seem to go the way I had wanted. I had an existing NTFS partition which I didn’t want to touch, so I guess that complicated matters a little. That and the fact that windows refused to allow reallocation of drive letters for system and boot partitions made it worse. Thing is that it didn’t even allow me to choose the partition to set as a boot partition in the first place. It just assumed.

I guess I’ll just have to live with this for now.