Install Windows 7 to HDD and Windows 10 to SSD (Drive Letter Problem)

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Hello,

I installed windows 7 on HDD (Disk 0, partition 1) and installed Windows 10 to SSD (Disk 1). When windows 7 starts the system drive letter shown C: and when windows 10 starts again system drive letter shown C. Can I assign static drive letter for example, Windows 7 system drive letter C, and Windows 10 system drive letter D.
I have tried " compmgmt.msc - storage - disk management " to change drive letter. But it doesn't assign static drive letter. Every time when windows starts, changes system drive to C.
Please help me to assign static system drive letter to Windows 7 on HDD and Windows 10 on SSD

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beefy

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Hi,

I`m not sure that`s possible,and why would you want to do that? If it so you can see at a glance which drive has which os on you can simply go into my computer and and click on local disk (c:) and you can type a name for each disk,the name will always stay the same but the letter will change depending on what you have in you system. i.e. I have a drive labeled back up and it always is titled back up but depending which pc it`s in read "back up (h:) or back up (g:).

Hope this helps
 
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I have already changed Windows 7 System Drive and Windows 10 TP Sytem Drive.
But there something really wrong. Because when I start windows 10 pressing F12 selecting SSD Windows 10 starts normally. But when I shut down windows 10 and start windows 7 every time runs
"chkdsk /f ". then starts windows 7
I thing there is something wrong, but I didn`t understand yet.

Note: Disk 0 Windows 7, Disk 1 (SSD) Windows 10
 
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I have a dual boot laptop, Win 7 and Win 10. Single drive, 2 partitions.
Whichever OS you boot into, sees itself as the C drive. The other partition is seen as the "D" drive.

What is the specific reasoning in wanting one OS to see itself as C, and the other OS to see itself as D?
 
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beefy - No, without windows 10 it works normally.

USAFRet - it doesnt matter for me the drive letter. So you know, I dont know exactly, but I doubt there is conflict. Because every time each OS start with the same letter. May be? And may be for that reason makes CHKDSK /F. I dont know this my doubt.
If I install each OS on the 1 HDD I gues there will not be problem. I have 1 HDD 620 and 1 SSD 32 on my notebook. Thus I want to install windows 10 on SSD (you know ssd is very fast).
 
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It sounds like that god forsaken "fast startup" I ran into with Win 8. Why in hell won't Microsoft give us the option of installing Win8 and Win10 without "fast startup"?

Anyway the fix is simple. Run Win 10. Disable hibernate. No more problems, at least that disabled "fast startup" on Win8. I don't remember just how to disable it. Start at control panel > hardware and sound > change when computer sleeps, or something like that.

The problem with "fast startup" is that the Shutdown button doesn't shut down completely. It hibernates the operating system and leaves the drive partitions in a hell of a mess.

Until you can figure out how to disable hibernate, you can always do a real shutdown by doing a restart. When it is down and before it restarts windows, power off.
 
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