I installed it, and wow I love it. My computer isn't the fastest but it runs so smooth on my pc. Question though, could I access my music from my other partioned space with windows xp on it, or will I have to make a partition to access it
You should be able to access everything from your other partition, assuming you created a new partition to install Windows 7 on. If you don't have any other drives showing up in my computer, go to:
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
In the pane to the left of the Computer Management window, click "Disk Management". You'll probably see your other partition there, but it doesn't have a drive letter assigned to it. Just right click that partition, and click "Change Drive Letter and Paths" to assign a drive letter to the partition.
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
In the pane to the left of the Computer Management window, click "Disk Management". You'll probably see your other partition there, but it doesn't have a drive letter assigned to it. Just right click that partition, and click "Change Drive Letter and Paths" to assign a drive letter to the partition.
You should be able to go straight into it, I guess. As long as there's no protection, such as an account password, stopping you.
if I do this will it screw it up if I boot from that partition again?ElementalDragon wrote:
You should be able to access everything from your other partition, assuming you created a new partition to install Windows 7 on. If you don't have any other drives showing up in my computer, go to:
Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
In the pane to the left of the Computer Management window, click "Disk Management". You'll probably see your other partition there, but it doesn't have a drive letter assigned to it. Just right click that partition, and click "Change Drive Letter and Paths" to assign a drive letter to the partition.
No. I don't know why, but for some reason Windows 7 doesn't seem to assign a drive letter to at least one partition, or one whole hard drive. I used to have Windows 7 installed as my primary OS, and it didn't automatically assign a drive letter to my 1TB storage drive. Now that i have Vista on partiton 1 and Windows 7 on partition 2 of my primary hard drive, it didn't assign a drive letter to my Vista partition, but assigned one to my storage drive.
The boot loader doesn't have anything to do with drive letters. boot loaders go by drive number and partition number. This is why whenever you dual/tri-boot different OS's, the partition the OS you're booting into is installed on is always the C drive.
The boot loader doesn't have anything to do with drive letters. boot loaders go by drive number and partition number. This is why whenever you dual/tri-boot different OS's, the partition the OS you're booting into is installed on is always the C drive.
thanks to everybody for your help, I got it all figured out now, man I love windows 7
So I "acquired" the new version today and have a little noob question.
Uhm... How "legal" is that version ? Meaning if I "acquire" a key from somewhere can I use my version with an internet
connection too ?
Or can I get in trouble with multiple used keys and such crap ?
Uhm... How "legal" is that version ? Meaning if I "acquire" a key from somewhere can I use my version with an internet
connection too ?
Or can I get in trouble with multiple used keys and such crap ?
Yea, the beta is having issues with drive letters. I think I remember reading that the latest build fixed that issue, though.