Windows 7 & XP problem.

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Rockfella

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Hi all,

I am facing some weird silly issue. If i try to install XP after installing windows 7 (formatting 7) my C drive (main OS partition) renames itself as D and vice versa. I am unable to change the names of the partitions once XP is installed. Seeing the main OS partition as a "D" one is annoying. Any idea why this happens?

TIA.

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Actually the 15GB partition is the main OS one which is suppose to be C and it is C when i am in windows 7.

:@

Ignore my dirty screen, a n00b friend likes to show me stupid things on the net pointing out / touching lcd with his oily fingers :@
 
Rockfella said:
Hi all,
I am facing some weird silly issue. If i try to install XP after installing windows 7 (formatting 7) my C drive (main OS partition) renames itself as D and vice versa. I am unable to change the names of the partitions once XP is installed. Seeing the main OS partition as a "D" one is annoying. Any idea why this happens?
TIA.

dsc02053sg.jpg


Actually the 15GB partition is the main OS one which is suppose to be C and it is C when i am in windows 7.

:@

Ignore my dirty screen, a n00b friend likes to show me stupid things on the net pointing out / touching lcd with his oily fingers :@
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even i face similar problem , even worse the boot Files are in even other partition . and i try to change boot flags the windows dont boot
 
well i dnt knw y its happening to u bcoz i did dual booting (win7 & xp) with win7 installd first n its working fine n did nt give any prob while installing xp...
 
I just figured this out yesterday. I deleted all my partions and use win 7 disc to create new partion from within the setup.

Now eachtime u do that , 7 creates a extra partion ( in my case it was 100MB partion) and names it as system partion.

So if u will make 2 partion , ur drive will actually have 3 partions ( + 1).

But from within windows u only c 2 partions that u have created.

U can check with a HDD partion utility about this !!

cheers . Hoped it helped !
 
I know about that 100 mb thingy.... i have no idea how it is related.... i've already done a full formate of the entire hdd and made seperat 15GB partition but still no clue...

Himanshunegi198 said:
I just figured this out yesterday. I deleted all my partions and use win 7 disc to create new partion from within the setup.

Now eachtime u do that , 7 creates a extra partion ( in my case it was 100MB partion) and names it as system partion.

So if u will make 2 partion , ur drive will actually have 3 partions ( + 1).

But from within windows u only c 2 partions that u have created.

U can check with a HDD partion utility about this !!

cheers . Hoped it helped !
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Just select the option of delete partition and then select the unallocated partition to install windows . Thats it.
 
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