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Is there a way to load and run Win7 from D:
Wow it has taken me a long time to be able to formulate this specific question. I needed to understand the pros and cons of EasyBCD. And Win7 itself. Which is just enough to install, backup and reinstall, and in particular, to move them to another HDD if necessary. A lot of study for relatively a few number of tasks learned...
A part of the difficulty was that I previously ran OS's on C: and then D: in particular, and as a natural progression, I was running Win7 on D: (while XP was on C: ) Apparently, the 'new thinking' is that the OS ALWAYS has to be C: That may be the 'new thinking', but the OPTION to run an OS on the 2nd partition as D: should still be OPTIONAL! But this looks more like politics than anything. The major OS manufacturers in their infinite egos (MS being the leader) couldn't bear the thought of their OS running on D, or E etc, 2nd to another OS! ... (or so it seems)... I have put myself through what amounts to a lot of wasted effort trying to tease out some program or technique that would simply tell Win7 to load and assign itsself D: (and behave!... lol) We know that it IS possible as it will do it after being installed after XP...
And perhaps the answer is in the question... Is that why Win7 did install like that? because it was installed from inside the OS of XP on C:??? Is that part of the answer?
Hmm... if so I wonder if I can recreate an install like that, then copy a saved image afterward, again, that just doesn't sound like an efficient or elegant solution to what should be simple and straightforward... but I no longer underestimate what can go wrong when messing with the wonderful world of boot loaders...
Nonetheless I put this question to the forum... Does anyone have a way of loading a Win7 OS to run on the 2nd partition as D. At this stage it is almost intellectual curiosity. But I would still like to have that option, if I so chose...