Oh I see.I had fully wiped out the harddrive,including the preinstalled Vista,a utility partition and a hidden image of Vista.Then when I installed 7 it's a whole blank hdd in the setup screen.But now after I uninstalled 7 this x: remains.I guess it has something to do with 7.
If you boot to a pre installation environment/recovery environment such as the Norton Ghost Environment - what is that called?
You see x:\sources> when you boot to the system recovery options from the 7 dvd.
Sources is on x:
as Windows and Program Files and Users are on C:
Hope it helps.
Yes I see that when I use 7 dvd.
But when I use norton ghost cd it's also there,and the x: root dir contains windows,users,program files (but they don't have many files as they are on c: ) and a norton ghost dir.
Since it has norton ghost dir it should be just read from the cd.RAM?if it's ram it shouldn't have 7's font and screen.So I guess it's kind of pre-installed environment somewhere on my harddrive.But it won't show up in the setup screen of both 7 and xp installation disc,nor in partition wizard.
Is this caused by a unclean uninstallation of 7? And does it have anyting to do with partition table?(since it's invisble)
Thank you.
I think you will find it is loaded into Ram - not on your HD at all.
I assume you can pick up the Norton.iso with PowerIso, or similar ? - see what files are in there - the same ones you just mentioned.
But when I load the cd,the screen with the loading bar shows "Windows is loading files" and "Microsoft Windows".And the norton ghost UI has a win7 dvd setup background.the background image can't be coming from the norton cd.
That's weird.
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