I am upgrading an old Asus M2NE from XP SP2 to Win7 Pro. I currently have 6 SATA2 drives on the old MB:
SATA1: SSD Sata2 (C drive)
SATA2-6: all seagate barracuda's in different sizes.
I also have an external JBOD NAS box with 2 more barracuda platters and a couple of old 500GB Seagate USB drives.
The plan is to replace the old SSD (128GB) with a new WD Black Caviar 1TB and use this as the new C drive with a clean install of Win7 Pro.
While I was browsing online I saw a wikipedia page about migrating to Win7 that said something about certain types of drive partitions created under XP that could be "delete without warning" when you migrate to Win7.
Of course I did not bookmark the page and now cannot find it again. This has me a bit freaked out since I have about 8TB of data, most of which is not backed up. I'm a JBOD fan and when a drive starts acting flaky, I buy a replacement and transfer everything over. Sounds goofy, but I rarely lose data.
When I've added a new drive under XP, I usually format at as a single primary partition. The only exception is that one of the barracuda's on the MB is a 3TB drive, and to get XP to recognize it I had to use Seagate's partition tool.
Has anyone heard of any conditions that would cause Win7 to delete a partition on a non-boot drive that was created by XP SP2?
Thanks for any help,
-Dan
SATA1: SSD Sata2 (C drive)
SATA2-6: all seagate barracuda's in different sizes.
I also have an external JBOD NAS box with 2 more barracuda platters and a couple of old 500GB Seagate USB drives.
The plan is to replace the old SSD (128GB) with a new WD Black Caviar 1TB and use this as the new C drive with a clean install of Win7 Pro.
While I was browsing online I saw a wikipedia page about migrating to Win7 that said something about certain types of drive partitions created under XP that could be "delete without warning" when you migrate to Win7.
Of course I did not bookmark the page and now cannot find it again. This has me a bit freaked out since I have about 8TB of data, most of which is not backed up. I'm a JBOD fan and when a drive starts acting flaky, I buy a replacement and transfer everything over. Sounds goofy, but I rarely lose data.
When I've added a new drive under XP, I usually format at as a single primary partition. The only exception is that one of the barracuda's on the MB is a 3TB drive, and to get XP to recognize it I had to use Seagate's partition tool.
Has anyone heard of any conditions that would cause Win7 to delete a partition on a non-boot drive that was created by XP SP2?
Thanks for any help,
-Dan
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