Any Win OS has system reserved partition, your C: drive is not the same.
You would need to assign a letter to it first, because it is hidden by default in any Windows OS. You should be able to use windows mmc console with disk management tool to do this. Once letter is assigned you will see just as another drive:
Wrong. Only the default installation partitioning creates a system reserved partition. I know what I am saying. I created my disk partition table explicitly before installing Windows, and in that case, Windows does not create a system reserved partition. Instead, the boot files are written in the Windows partition "C:". All my partition tools (fdisk, gparted, Windows Disk Management, etc.) confirm my information.
Furthermore, assigning/removing a drive letter is pretty simple using the Windows Disk Management MMC view, except when you don't have a system reserved partition in the first place.