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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:02:40 -0000, "Stewart"
wrote:
>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.
Art
wrote:
>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.
Art