here is what happened with my dual boot install

I had built a new desktop computer about 5 months ago, and loaded XP on it. It has a single hard drive, partitioned into 3 partitions. The third partition, E:, is about 100Gb and I use it for temporary files. I.E. if I want to collect some files into a single folder and burn that to CD, I do that on E:.

Today I installed W7 RC1, and installed it on the third partition. Here is what I discovered:

1. When I boot into W7, the drive letters get shuffled- the third partition becomes C:, the first 2 partitions become D: and E:.

2. I did what I thought was a clean install, but the files and folders that were already on that partition are still there.

There isn't a problem, I was just stating what happened with my setup.

I don't know how much I will actually USE W7 before Oct. 22, but for now I will just play with it occasionally. The big thing is that I don't want to have to reinstall my apps under W7, at least not all at once.

bfromxp said:

I had built a new desktop computer about 5 months ago, and loaded XP on it. It has a single hard drive, partitioned into 3 partitions. The third partition, E:, is about 100Gb and I use it for temporary files. I.E. if I want to collect some files into a single folder and burn that to CD, I do that on E:.

Today I installed W7 RC1, and installed it on the third partition. Here is what I discovered:

1. When I boot into W7, the drive letters get shuffled- the third partition becomes C:, the first 2 partitions become D: and E:.

2. I did what I thought was a clean install, but the files and folders that were already on that partition are still there.

That is what happens when you use the same HDD. to do differently you need more than 1 HDD. my Vista is C: =always, my Win7 7264 is L:\ = always and Win7 -vista upgrade is f:\ always. but then i have 3 HDDs and ea is partitioned into 3

I am multi booting XP and W7. My XP was already running on a single drive with 2 partitions. The 2nd partition was just a small 50GB Ubuntu installation to play with. I deleted the 2nd partition, created a new one and assigned drive letter E to it. Then I installed W7 on it.

XP = C:
W7 = E: (always)

WiZaRd7 said:

I am multi booting XP and W7. My XP was already running on a single drive with 2 partitions. The 2nd partition was just a small 50GB Ubuntu installation to play with. I deleted the 2nd partition, created a new one and assigned drive letter E to it. Then I installed W7 on it.

XP = C:
W7 = E: (always)

OK so you have c:, and E:. whats the problem? or were you just saying thats what your dual boot looks like?

Let me know

Ken

zigzag3143 said:

OK so you have c:, and E:. whats the problem? or were you just saying thats what your dual boot looks like?

Let me know

Ken

Maybe you came in late but someone else here had the problem. All I did was state how my installation went and maybe I should have highlighted that I "assigned a drive letter" to the W7 install which I believe may have been the difference between mine which went smoothly and our friend here who had a problem with his.

WiZaRd7 said:

Maybe you came in late but someone else here had the problem. All I did was state how my installation went and maybe I should have highlighted that I "assigned a drive letter" to the W7 install which I believe may have been the difference between mine which went smoothly and our friend here who had a problem with his.

Im glad yours went well I was just somewhat confused and multi tasking 5 ppl at the same time. I think OP were confused as well given the other responses

Ken