Re: Install Windows Se7en alongside Windows Vista?

John, I have installed Vista and Windows 7 on separate HDs in same computer.
When I go into Windows Explorer in Win 7, and expand Computer, it sees Win 7
as "New Volume (C", and Vista as "Local disk (D"

And that is the way it installed.

Same name/letter allocation in Start>Computer in Win 7.
--
Mad Mike


"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

> Your first operating system drive is C: When another operating system is
> installed and booted up the new drive/partition you installed it on
> allocates the drive letter C: to it. If you boot to Vista or XP your drive
> will show as C:, if you then boot to Windows 7 this drive will also show as
> C:
>
> At some point the C: drive letter is removed from one hard drive/partition
> and allocated to the other operating system, thus leaving the 'original'
> drive/partition without a drive letter.
>
> In Windows Vista the 'original' drive would automatically be allocated a new
> drive letter. In my case, for example Vista is drive C: whereas Windows 7 is
> drive H. However, in Windows 7, Win 7 is designated as drive C: and Vista
> does not have a drive letter, hence it cannot be seen. It is only when I
> manually allocate a drive letter that the drive is seen in Windows Explorer.
> From the information I received from Microsoft when I bugged this problem
> this is how it is 'supposed' to work - Windows 7 takes the C: drive letter
> in a dual boot system and the other operating system remains invisible
> unless manually allocated a drive letter.
>
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> > John Barnett MVP wrote:

> >> RalfG it is worth noting that when dual booting Windows 7 will not see a
> >> Vista or XP partition simply because Windows 7 doesn't allocate a drive
> >> letter to the 'older' operating system drive. This has caused many
> >> problems for users. The simplest way around the problem is to assign a
> >> drive letter yourself to the Vista or XP drive, then Windows 7 will see
> >> the drive.

> >
> > That has not been my experience. I did a clean install of Win7 to a
> > separate drive. I now have a triple boot menu on boot up. Once in '7' it
> > sees all my drives and assigns drive letters as expected for the other
> > OS's. The only drives I don't see are the card readers as you mention
> > below. But if I insert a card into a reader it comes right up with the
> > next available drive letter.
> >
> >
> >

> >>
> >> If you use a card reader you will also notice that the drives on that are
> >> also not visible. Again this is a default of Windows 7 (presumably to
> >> reduce clutter in Windows Explorer). The card reader drive will only
> >> become visible when the 'card' is inserted into the card reader.
> >>

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