dslchiphead
New Member
I know there has been various themes on Windows XP to Windows 7 migration, but...
I recently installed/upgraded Windows 7 on my Windows XP PC. My thinking in doing this was not put it in the same location as Windows XP but into a new partition and then migrate over the user settings and applications. This will give me a fresh start since XP has been used for a very long long time with comes with a lot of crap.
The way I installed it is I resized and then partition the C:\ XP drive with the new partition becoming F:\. Windows 7 was installed in F:\. I then migraded all the application settings from XP to 7. So far so good. I am now done with Windows XP. I booted into Win7 and then used EasyBCD to move the Boot confguration over to the F:\ drive. Again, good to go. I then renamed the C:\ drive to G:\ using the Device Manager in WIn7 and again used EasyBCD to change the Windows XP boot partition from C:\ to G:\. (You may gather where I am going with this in that to make Windows 7 use the C:\ as it's drive.)
Everything boots and runs fine. When I boot Windows XP, the G:\ becomes C:\. But Windows 7 stays F:\. Since the F:\ is the System partition I can not rename F:\ to C:\.
Is there a way to make F:\ into C:\ under Window 7? I do understand that I have to use EasyBCD to adjust the boot parameters again. I will also have to go through manually changing all the Registry entries with any Data that references F:\ and change it to C:\ which I am not looking forward to! Can this be done or a better way to accomplish this?
Regards,
-Dave
I recently installed/upgraded Windows 7 on my Windows XP PC. My thinking in doing this was not put it in the same location as Windows XP but into a new partition and then migrate over the user settings and applications. This will give me a fresh start since XP has been used for a very long long time with comes with a lot of crap.
The way I installed it is I resized and then partition the C:\ XP drive with the new partition becoming F:\. Windows 7 was installed in F:\. I then migraded all the application settings from XP to 7. So far so good. I am now done with Windows XP. I booted into Win7 and then used EasyBCD to move the Boot confguration over to the F:\ drive. Again, good to go. I then renamed the C:\ drive to G:\ using the Device Manager in WIn7 and again used EasyBCD to change the Windows XP boot partition from C:\ to G:\. (You may gather where I am going with this in that to make Windows 7 use the C:\ as it's drive.)
Everything boots and runs fine. When I boot Windows XP, the G:\ becomes C:\. But Windows 7 stays F:\. Since the F:\ is the System partition I can not rename F:\ to C:\.
Is there a way to make F:\ into C:\ under Window 7? I do understand that I have to use EasyBCD to adjust the boot parameters again. I will also have to go through manually changing all the Registry entries with any Data that references F:\ and change it to C:\ which I am not looking forward to! Can this be done or a better way to accomplish this?
Regards,
-Dave
