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lgbpop
January 20th, 2009, 10:13 AM
I've been playing around a bit with Windows7 and like it so far. I installed it in a separate partition on my laptop; it also has Win2000 and XP Home. I've noticed that 7 exhibits a different behavior than Vista which I put on my office computer (also with 2000 and XP Pro).

Whereas Vista was installed on drive E: and identifies itself as such in Computer on the office machine, 7 was installed on drive E: but identifies itself as C: in Computer on the laptop. XP remains drive D: as it always did, but 2000 didn't show at all in Disk Management after installing 7 until I activated the partition and it's now drive F:. (The fourth partition for storage was moved to E: when 7 was installed.) It's as if 7 kicked 2000 "out of the nest" and assumed its place.

If I decide to remove this beta version, I'll probably have to reidentify 2000 as C: since that's where the MBR was until I installed 7. Speaking of which, the MBR works the same as in Vista; you can choose between 7 or Older versions of Windows. Choosing the latter then brings up the usual OS options menu.

Did I fail to prep the laptop properly, or is this "normal?"

Steve R Jones
January 20th, 2009, 10:39 AM
I've seen Vista call it self C when it was dual booted on what should be the D partition....It depends on which OS your running at time as to what you'll see....

If you remove Win 7, you'll be in a world of hurst since all three OS's are using 7's boot manager....MS has several articles on how to fix it in the Knowledgebase. (article for Vista that should work for 7)

lgbpop
January 20th, 2009, 11:02 AM
If you remove Win 7, you'll be in a world of hurt since all three OS's are using 7's boot manager....MS has several articles on how to fix it in the Knowledgebase. (article for Vista that should work for 7)I figure if the time comes I'd just use the XP CD and run fixmbr from the Recovery Console. I'm not worried at all. (Famous last words!)

SuperSparks
January 21st, 2009, 10:58 AM
I've used Vista Boot Pro to make a couple of changes to the Win7 bootloader, it worked just fine :)

VistaBoot Pro (http://www.vistabootpro.org/)