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Advice please on swapping Win7 and XP drive letters (separate disks)
Hello all,
First post here and seeking some advice please.
The intention is that eventually I (and other family users) will "migrate" to being Win7 users.
The crux of what I want to end up with is Win7 being C:\windows(7)..... etc and XP being D:\Windows(XP).....etc. I want to keep the idea that the OS will be on drive letter C (because other users cannot get their heads around drives other than C
Current arrangement is Disk0 has C: with XP and all my current programs, user documents etc. Disk1 has D: with new install of Win 7 Pro. So far have not copied any existing user files into Win7, but I'm happy with doing that together with re-installing software as I come to needing it.
Disk 0 - C:\ is marked as system disk and has bootmgr which is currently dual boot Win7/XP (actually it is triple boot) because Disk1 also has a 3GB partition of H:\ which has a "skeleton" XP install with just an admin account - put there in case I ever had trouble with C:\ or wanted to backup C:\ with all files closed.
I know (from helpful advice on here) that I cannot change drive letter of the system disk (currently C:)
but is there a way to get to where I want to be.
In summary,
The Win7 install is new, so could be sacrificed and re-installed if need be - presumably there would be no issue putting the activation code in again ?
I have external storage onto which I can image any of the partitions. Disk0 has already been done.
I use Macrium Reflect (free) for my imaging. I've d/loaded Paragon Backup and Recovery Free 2014 after reading other threads on here.
Any help or pointers very gratefully appreciated.
Regards
Gromwood