Windows XP to Win 7

JoeG1

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I am about to finally upgrade to windows 7. I currently have a 250 GB HD that is partitioned with C: for Programs and D: for data (Generally).

I have a 1TB HD coming. My plan is to unplug the XP drive, then plug in the new drive and install Win 7 on that.

I then plan on plugging in the old drive so that I can access any data that I forgot to grab and later use it for more storage.

The current set up is:
C: drive part 1
D: drive part 2:

Future set up:
C: new drive
D: old drive part 1
E: old drive part 2

The challenge is I have done something like this before but ran into a problem of getting the old C: drive to stop being C and stop being the boot drive, I just can't remember what I did to fix that. Anyone able to help me out here?
 
Solution


No. Unless you completely direct it otherwise, whatever drive it boots from will be "C". Anything else will be whatever is available.

For instance on my dualboot laptop, Win 7 and Win 8.1:
Whichever OS I choose to boot from is "C", the other partition is seen as "D".
Win8.1 sees its own partition as C
Win7 sees its own partition as C.

In either case, the 'other' partition becomes "D".

USAFRet

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No. Unless you completely direct it otherwise, whatever drive it boots from will be "C". Anything else will be whatever is available.

For instance on my dualboot laptop, Win 7 and Win 8.1:
Whichever OS I choose to boot from is "C", the other partition is seen as "D".
Win8.1 sees its own partition as C
Win7 sees its own partition as C.

In either case, the 'other' partition becomes "D".
 
Solution

JoeG1

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Jan 19, 2014
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I get to do this next week I was just getting a bit nervous I have 3 backups of the data and will do one more just before I do this upgrade Thanks USAFRet and Rgd.

This all worked out perfectly. Thanks much for the help.
 

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