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Installing win7 in the right partition
I’ve been at this for 4 days, trying to get win 7 64 bit on the right partition. I can get it installed but, it deletes C: (just the drive letter) the drive is still there, and rearranges other drive letters.
I have a 240 gig HD partitioned up to the letter N. Of these XP was installed in 3 different partitions. 1 each for the internet, games and Autocad.
Specs are: Asrock 775 dualvsta
Pentium 4 3.4 G
Nvidia 8600GT
1 G memory Corsair
CD-DVD
Creative 7 speaker sound
Feedback joy stick
Nothing overclocked right now.
Here is what takes place. If I start the Win7 32 bit install from within XP it will install properly. This is the first thing I did. I didn’t realize my machine would run 64 bit. When I found that out I installed it. Had to boot from the DVD disc, custom install, went well. Runs good, I like it, much faster. Then I realize what happened.
It put itself on C: drive. That drive wasn’t partitioned big enough for that. What the, now Autocad in on F:, supposed to be on G:. Holy crap. The hair on the back of my neck is straight up. All the other drives are screwed up. I wonder if I can get into XP.
WOW, went right in, hey everything is alright. All the drives are good. Whewww. It was actually on the correct drive, it had rearranged the drive letters just for itself and eliminated the letter for drive C:. A check on the registry and everything points to C:.
Same thing will take place with the 32 bit if you boot with the DVD and do a clean install.
Question is, how can I get the Win7 64 bit install on the correct partition and leave the drive letters alone?
Roger