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From: the wharf rat on 6 Jan 2010 00:55 In article <hi0rfk$fgi$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Ryan P. <rdeletepaque(a)wi.rr.comm> wrote: > > The laptop, however, is dual boot with Vista and Win7. Does that make >it less dangerous to join the partitions? Just don't cross the streams.
From: Barry Watzman on 6 Jan 2010 00:59
Re: "The laptop, however, is dual boot with Vista and Win7. Does that make it less dangerous to join the partitions?" Yes, actually it does. I'm still skeptical about your ability to do this without a reinstall. But there are fewer risks with a Vista/7 dual boot than with an XP/7 dual boot. The two OS' are more similar, and some known actual incompatibilities and conflicts don't exist. Ryan P. wrote: > On 1/5/2010 7:31 PM, Barry Watzman wrote: >> Re: "I'm more worried about when I decide to migrate completely to Win7. >> I'm a little leery about about merging the partitions into one without >> messing up the MBR." >> >> Be aware that Vista and Windows 7 do not use the MBR boot scheme >> originally introduced with MS-DOS 2.0 and used in very OS until Vista >> (e.g. through XP). Instead, both Vista and Windows 7 use the "BCD" boot >> scheme (BCD = boot configuration data). It's a whole different system >> for booting. >> >> I have XP and Windows 7 dual boot on this machine. If you do that, you >> will lose system restore on both OS', and there are some other issues >> (incompatibilities) as well, although they are not major. But I'm not >> sure that you could ever combine the XP and 7 partitions; I think if you >> wanted to truly get rid of XP, you would have to start over. > > That is an interesting bit of information... thanks! I learned my new > thing for the day! > > The laptop, however, is dual boot with Vista and Win7. Does that make > it less dangerous to join the partitions? I would still be leery about > doing it, though, with my preferred OS on the 2nd partition, that's the > one that seems more likely to be corrupted. > > Although, as I said, the safest option would be simply getting a new > hard drive. I wouldn't mind upgrading from the 120GB this thing came with! |