Partitioning question..

will be a well viewed thread because of its topic. I have nothing to offer as the smarts are covered here, other than just stating that consider yourself lucky if you dont have this problem compounded with a prissy motherboard going on about what sata drive is connected to what port when and if ide0 is in use or/if ide 0 or 1 holds an ata hdd and decides which disk it wants to boot from. advice in future, install each OS to its on hot-swappable sata II external drive bays Pull Plug and Play. :) I'm sure its now the SSD way to go for sure tho. Anyways... now back to the feature program, already in progress...

Hi Yup Yup,

Afaik , as they are basic disks, mounting the empty one in an ntfs folder on the Win7 drive is as close as it gets.

SIW2 said:

Hi Yup Yup,

Afaik , as they are basic disks, mounting the empty one in an ntfs folder on the Win7 drive is as close as it gets.

Yeah i know that was my attempt at sarcasm, i guess i fail.

johngalt said:

Eagle - no worries - I understand where you were coming from, and your advice was spot on if the situation had been as you thought - no harm no foul.

That's very kind of you since I was being a bit stone headed, Thanks.

I am going to do some research on that special partition though as I have never seen it in any of my installs, including this one.

Never hurts to learn something new...

markst said:

First of all thanks to all that responded.

I have tried to reinstall by using the custom installation. I have tried to delete the empty D: partition but delete is greyed out.

Also there is just one hard drive on the system, just split into two partitions.

If I remember correctly using VISTA I was able to delete the second partition and just have one on the drive.

I wonder if there is just a partition manager program that is shareware that would solve the problem. Anyway really would like to have one partition on the drive..

Ill try again tonite. Really no problem in starting over since I have everything I need backed up on the External Drive

Well color me confused now because this statement does not match with the screenshot of your disks. According to your screenshot there is no D volume and the only other drive that could contain vista is F which is on a seperate hard drive than win 7.

disk 0: hidden system partition(no drive letter) and win 7 partition(C)

disk 1: new volume(F)

disk 2: external drive(G)