I just thought I would try out the Windows 7, so I installed the 64 bit Enterprise trial on a clean HD. The trouble is that it loses my second drive's Primary partition. All the other logical drives are there but not the Primary partition. I have never had any problems with XP or Vista like this. This sounds like a bad partition handler to me. I hope this is not how bad it is staying because for those upgrading from XP have a lot to lose if this is the only way W7 handles partitions and makes up a whole new meaning out of "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea!"
Win7 install knocks out second partition
- Thread starter jeffa123
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It probably just didnt assign a drive letter to the partition. It has happened to me before. Open your control panel, click Administrative Tools, click Computer Management then click on Disk Management on the left and wait a few seconds for it to open. Check to see if your partition is listed and if it is, right click on it and click "assign drive letter" or something similar.
Drive letter Assignation doesn't even come into it. The Drives are Labelled correctly. The problem is that the Drive is partitioned in XP style format. Primary partition, then a logical partition divided into 3 drives.
Anyone with a simple knowledge of Dos/Windows partitions should know the way. The silly thing about it is that I have another Drive connected to the system with Vista on it and another with XP - Both Drives are Primary Active partitioned Drives, but they are recognised.
I just cannot understand why W7 is so ignorant of drive partitioning keys.
I do not see why I should have to go in and low level write to the registry in order to mount a drive that is written in NTFS Format with a primary alpha key algorithm that it should should recognise from install.
It has nothing to do with you, you are trying to help. All I am trying to do is find a logical reason for Windows 7 to be doing this. I am sure that If I had purchased the O/S and expected it to work correctly straight out of the box I would have been disapointed. So Far my Windows 7 Experience hasn't been a good one.
PLEASE DO NOT TAKE MY REPLY AS AN INSULT......
Anyone with a simple knowledge of Dos/Windows partitions should know the way. The silly thing about it is that I have another Drive connected to the system with Vista on it and another with XP - Both Drives are Primary Active partitioned Drives, but they are recognised.
I just cannot understand why W7 is so ignorant of drive partitioning keys.
I do not see why I should have to go in and low level write to the registry in order to mount a drive that is written in NTFS Format with a primary alpha key algorithm that it should should recognise from install.
It has nothing to do with you, you are trying to help. All I am trying to do is find a logical reason for Windows 7 to be doing this. I am sure that If I had purchased the O/S and expected it to work correctly straight out of the box I would have been disapointed. So Far my Windows 7 Experience hasn't been a good one.
PLEASE DO NOT TAKE MY REPLY AS AN INSULT......