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Dual Boot for XP + W7 clarification
Hello all, yet another newcomer and somewhat of a real novice to what seems a marvellous site.
Usually a man in a shop does everything for me but thought l'd bite the bullet, as it costs me a fortune each visit, and have a go myself with of course some help from yourselves.
Suffice to say, before l update my profile with my specs, my machine will run W7.
At the moment l have two 500gb hard drives.
One drive is partitioned so that there is a C partition of 50gb and a D partition of 450gb.
The second drive F remains at 500gb.
I currently run XPHome SP3 in the C partition, however l'd like to try out W7 just to see what its all about.
Have read the tutorial about dual booting which is really good and seems to be what l need, but it's just some of the terminology that l'd like clarification on.
The partition examples show as 0 and 1 so l assume that this is the equivalent of my C and D?
Also, when one installs an OS say, XP, everything is written to the C drive.
If l install W7 and specify install to the D drive, is this what it will do? This is what l can't get my head around. (l still keep thinking in terms of just the C drive!).
What happens if l download something for W7. Sometimes, as per XP, you don't get an option and it'll download to the C drive whereas you would want this to go to the D drive.
Sorry, l know it's easy for a lot of you but l'm just that bit over cautious as l don't want to corrupt XP on my C drive at the moment.
Hope all the above makes sense, and sorry for rambling on.
Regards
WTC