MorpheusXII
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Note All my 3 x OS's are on the same disk but different partitions.
Before BCD:
-XP SP3 Installed (boots as C:
-Win7-64Bit (boots as C:
-Under Win7-64Bit I imaged Win7-64Bit to another partition called (ImageofWin7-64bit) using EasusBackup, no drive letter assigned yet.
EasyBCD:
-Installed this on Win7-64Bit (boots as C:
- Assigned drive letter H: to (ImageofWin7-64bit).
-Launched EasyBCD and added entry to Boot (ImageofWin7-64bit) on H: (I also really would like this to be drive C: when it boots?).
Rebooted system. All systems boot successfully but....
- (ImageofWin7-64bit) boots and changes made on the desktop also change desktop of (Win7-64Bit)
- I haven't tried launching apps on (ImageofWin7-64bit). Looking at the environment I have the following (many entries pointing to C: ) :
C:\>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=H:\ProgramData
APPDATA=C:\Users\tony\AppData\Roaming
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=OBIWAN
ComSpec=H:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
DEFLOGDIR=C:\ProgramData\McAfee\DesktopProtection
EMC_AUTOPLAY=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\tony
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\tony\AppData\Local
LOGONSERVER=\\OBIWAN
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=4
OS=Windows_NT
Path=H:\Windows\system32;H:\Windows;H:\Windows\System32\Wbem;H:\Windows\System32
\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLSha
red\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program
Files (x86)\Autodesk\Backburner\
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=170a
ProgramData=H:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PSModulePath=H:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
PUBLIC=H:\Users\Public
RoxioCentral=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\Roxio Central
36\
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=H:
SystemRoot=H:\Windows
TEMP=C:\Users\tony\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\tony\AppData\Local\Temp
USERDOMAIN=OBIWAN
USERNAME=tony
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\tony
VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\ProgramData\McAfee\DesktopProtection
windir=H:\Windows
-I guess I can easily change all this going through my environment variables via system properties etc chnging C: to H: to make (ImageofWin7-64bit) work properly and not affect Win7-64Bit partition...however will I encounter issues with reigistry entries and my apps launching/running?
-Is there a way to make my (ImageofWin7-64bit) also boot and reference itself as drive C:? Maybe installing EasyBCD to (ImageofWin7-64bit), change H: to C: and modify the BCD to now reference C:, I hesitate and ask the question now just in case this could be disasterous.
For completeness I will post my BCD dump in the next post.
Before BCD:
-XP SP3 Installed (boots as C:
-Win7-64Bit (boots as C:
-Under Win7-64Bit I imaged Win7-64Bit to another partition called (ImageofWin7-64bit) using EasusBackup, no drive letter assigned yet.
EasyBCD:
-Installed this on Win7-64Bit (boots as C:
- Assigned drive letter H: to (ImageofWin7-64bit).
-Launched EasyBCD and added entry to Boot (ImageofWin7-64bit) on H: (I also really would like this to be drive C: when it boots?).
Rebooted system. All systems boot successfully but....
- (ImageofWin7-64bit) boots and changes made on the desktop also change desktop of (Win7-64Bit)
- I haven't tried launching apps on (ImageofWin7-64bit). Looking at the environment I have the following (many entries pointing to C: ) :
C:\>set
ALLUSERSPROFILE=H:\ProgramData
APPDATA=C:\Users\tony\AppData\Roaming
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files
CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files
COMPUTERNAME=OBIWAN
ComSpec=H:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe
DEFLOGDIR=C:\ProgramData\McAfee\DesktopProtection
EMC_AUTOPLAY=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\
FP_NO_HOST_CHECK=NO
HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\tony
LOCALAPPDATA=C:\Users\tony\AppData\Local
LOGONSERVER=\\OBIWAN
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=4
OS=Windows_NT
Path=H:\Windows\system32;H:\Windows;H:\Windows\System32\Wbem;H:\Windows\System32
\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLSha
red\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\DLLShared\;C:\Program
Files (x86)\Autodesk\Backburner\
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=Intel64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=170a
ProgramData=H:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files
PROMPT=$P$G
PSModulePath=H:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\
PUBLIC=H:\Users\Public
RoxioCentral=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\Roxio Central
36\
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=H:
SystemRoot=H:\Windows
TEMP=C:\Users\tony\AppData\Local\Temp
TMP=C:\Users\tony\AppData\Local\Temp
USERDOMAIN=OBIWAN
USERNAME=tony
USERPROFILE=C:\Users\tony
VSEDEFLOGDIR=C:\ProgramData\McAfee\DesktopProtection
windir=H:\Windows
-I guess I can easily change all this going through my environment variables via system properties etc chnging C: to H: to make (ImageofWin7-64bit) work properly and not affect Win7-64Bit partition...however will I encounter issues with reigistry entries and my apps launching/running?
-Is there a way to make my (ImageofWin7-64bit) also boot and reference itself as drive C:? Maybe installing EasyBCD to (ImageofWin7-64bit), change H: to C: and modify the BCD to now reference C:, I hesitate and ask the question now just in case this could be disasterous.
For completeness I will post my BCD dump in the next post.
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