Drive Letter Issue

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Basically a few months ago i had 2x 640GB Setup as :

640GB C
640GB D


I then split C into to x 320GB partitions so it looks like this

320GB C
320GB D
640GB E

Im dual booting vista and w7 but want to remove my vista. However, i have games installed on the now e drive within vista so not sure what to just delete.

Can i go into my vista install, re assign the e drive as d without affecting my w7 stuff?
 
How much space is left on your E drive?

I mean I'm confused by some of what you've said.

Windows 7 is on C.

Windows Vista with the games is on E.

What is drive D doing?

Can't you move your games to drive D then just format drive E?
 
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Start again from scratch?

Make two partitions on one HDD so you end up with;
C: 50GB
D: 50GB
E: 550GB
F: 650GB

Then you can use you're E or F for My Documents and any personal files but leave the OS partitions for programs only.

Or setup a MATRIX RAID and make a super fast RAID 0 array for one OS and a RAID 1 array which gives you a duplicate of all your data so you'll be backing up all your data without doing a thing. Giving you the speed of RAID 0 and backup of RAID 1 with just two HDDs. :D
 
il start again lol. In vista, i used to have 2 x 640gb drives, one with windows on and one with games / media on.

i then split the windows 640gb drive into 2 partitions. one was the current windows install. the other was windows 7. the windows 7 drive within vista, has changed its drive letter to what the 2nd 640gb was, so i cant uninstall any games properly as the directory is wrong. can i just reassign a drive letter to the 640 gb in vista so i can uninstall stuff without breaking everything?
 
Drive letters are just assigned by the OS, they're not actually tagged on the drive itself. So you can set them to whatever you want in Vista, and W7 will remain utterly oblivious.
 
Here's your answer mate, I got it for ya... oh yeah.. I want a cookie too.

Go to which ever OS is giving you jip, right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Manage'. When the computer management window opens you want to select 'Disk Management' (should be under 'Storage'). This will display all the partitions and drive letters on your computer.

Use this to change the drive letters in an official capacity for that particular OS.

I suggest you change the drive letter, sort out your issue, then change it back. Then log into your other OS, go to the same 'Disk Management' and repeat.
 
So from the OP the only thing you want to save is the games? The registory will be pointing at that drive so easy thing to do without playing with the drives is to copy the save files out, uninstall the games and re-install them to desired location. then copy the save files back, or have I missed something?
 
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