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May have been a temporary issue with the server.
Thanks for all the help. Please re-read it again or ask a specific question. "Can you please label the drives what exists there now" does not make any sense to me.
Which drive in specific? I have attached the second jpeg with the content of the drive D: which was previously C: before installation.
I cant think of any other explanation, between the two posts that I have posted.
Could you please tell us which OS is on which partition?
It is hard to determine from what you have written.
Thank you.
You need to bear in mind that Microsoft did not do this....you did. You made the choices that led to this during the installation process, either because you mis-clicked or didn't understand the operations taking place. If this were an issue with the software, it would be known and addressed by this time.
According to your screen shots, you booted into disk3, partition 1( C: ), which is your system partition and disk 3 is the primary drive with the Win 7 boot files. I will assume this is the Win 7 install. I do not know if it has the XP boot files, which it needs and EasyBCD 2.0 will put them there for you.
Disk 4, partition 1 ( D: ) is your XP install.
If I go back and check, I will loose this post, but if you are trying to do a dual boot, you need to use EasyBCD to set it up.
My question, is there a disk 0,1,2? Which SATA connector do you have the Disk 3 plugged in to?
Last edited by Saltgrass; 07 Jan 2010 at 10:03.
You need to understand that, just because I have logged here and ask for solution to something that is simply unexplainable, it means that I simply clicked not knowing where was I clicking. IN other word please dont insult.
You need to bear in mind that Microsoft did not do this....you did. You made the choices that led to this during the installation process, either because you mis-clicked or didn't understand the operations taking place. If this were an issue with the software, it would be known and addressed by this time.
Look at the screens and in this case the only two drives in question are DISk #3 and Disk #4.
Disk #3 Indicates drive C: and I:
Disk#4 Indicates drive D:
When I booted using win 7 setup DVD, I had the choice of where I wanted WIn 7 to be installed. It installed in the directory where I wanted it to be installed (Imagine someone speaking very slowly as you read this).
Before doing the installation, I had Win XP on disk 4, bootable and working without any problems. When it Win7 installation querried where I wanted to install my Win 7? I clicked on the Drive selected. I clicked on tools and selected format before installation. Which it executed promptly. Setup ended without a glitch and Windows 7 started the system. Only this time it did not ask for the O/S choice. Which seemed odd. I clicked on my computer and I saw the changes to drive letters.
I clicked on each drive to see where has my XP gone to? I found out it has gone to D. I clicked to see if my files are intact. NO theywere not. Please read he rest of the upper posts. Besides If I would have clicked format wrongly to XP drive all files would have been deleted and Win & would have been installed there. JUST think before you become an annoyance.
AND EVERYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO HELP.
comprehension, or understanding what I requested is the problem, I will be glad to furnish further information. If you dont understand, but start attacking, please dont contribute, leave while your sanity is intact.
Thank you for all the help. Please admin close this thread