hard drive final

[Stewart]

At last I have the hard drive installed and working, am sending this message
using it.
Only had one problem (to-day that is ) - I had formatted the new hard drive
and gave it the designation drive F, leaving the original as C.
When I have installed Windows 7 it has automatically changed the new drive
to C and the original to F. I do not yet know how that will affect the
programs installed under XP in the original drive but will find out in due
course.
Again thanks to all.

 

[Trev]

At last I have the hard drive installed and working, am sending this
message using it.
Only had one problem (to-day that is ) - I had formatted the new hard
drive and gave it the designation drive F, leaving the original as C.
When I have installed Windows 7 it has automatically changed the new drive
to C and the original to F. I do not yet know how that will affect the
programs installed under XP in the original drive but will find out in due
course.
Again thanks to all.

Possibly when you login to the XP os you will find the drives the other way
round

 

[Zootal]

Possibly when you login to the XP os you will find the drives the
other way round

Depending on how Windows was installed, it may or may not change the
partition letters. There is a somewhat official standard (is it official?)
that states how partition should be lettered. Microsoft, in their infinite
wisdom, decided that they no longer need to follow it so when you boot to
different Microsoft operating systems, your drives may have different
letters.

Example: Install XP to c:. All drives will be lettered according to
standard. Then install Win7 to g:. If you start the Win7 install from XP,
then the drive lettering won't change. If you start the Win7 install from a
cd/dvd without booting to XP, then it re-letters g: to c:, and re-letters
the other drives accordingly.

Linux doesn't even support drive letters, so this problem doesn't exist
there - you simply mount your partitions where and how you want. You can do
that in Windows to some extant, in that you can change the lettering of
some of the drives, but not the system or boot partition.

 

[Star]

At last I have the hard drive installed and working, am sending this message
using it.
Only had one problem (to-day that is ) - I had formatted the new hard drive
and gave it the designation drive F, leaving the original as C.
When I have installed Windows 7 it has automatically changed the new drive
to C and the original to F. I do not yet know how that will affect the
programs installed under XP in the original drive but will find out in due
course.
Again thanks to all.

Thats the way Windows 7 works it sets the booting OS to C: if you boot
to XP yes Windows 7 will become F: (in your case.) as to running a
program installed on XP when using Windows 7 this is a no-no if you
want the XP program to run under Windows 7 it needs to be installed
under Windows 7 also.

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