Hi all:
Just looking at doing a whack of Win7 installs/upgrades. Google and searches of this forum have given me plenty of people's positions on HOW to stop Win7 from making the extra partition but none have done a good job of telling me WHY I would want to stop it (other than being a control freak) and what advantages (other than Bitlocker) it may offer to go ahead and let Win7 do its thing.
Some of these systems are straight installs and are for other people like my dad. Some are currently running Vista or XP systems on which I want to squeeze/move partitions, install Win7 and get dual booting working for a transition period.
What are the pros and cons in a "resize and dual boot" scenario or do I even have any options here? What about life after Win7 when I want to do a similar thing - reduce a running Win7 system partition, install Win8 and dual boot for a while? My systems are pretty stable yet complicated (lots of software, configs, codecs, preferences, multiple users) - but I typically do not "reformat" during the life of an OS and have never needed to for performance or stability. Will allowing or disallowing the creation of this extra Win7 partition interfere with future resizing and multibooting? I realize this may be a best guess as "Win8" is a total unknown.
Thanks,
Just looking at doing a whack of Win7 installs/upgrades. Google and searches of this forum have given me plenty of people's positions on HOW to stop Win7 from making the extra partition but none have done a good job of telling me WHY I would want to stop it (other than being a control freak) and what advantages (other than Bitlocker) it may offer to go ahead and let Win7 do its thing.
Some of these systems are straight installs and are for other people like my dad. Some are currently running Vista or XP systems on which I want to squeeze/move partitions, install Win7 and get dual booting working for a transition period.
What are the pros and cons in a "resize and dual boot" scenario or do I even have any options here? What about life after Win7 when I want to do a similar thing - reduce a running Win7 system partition, install Win8 and dual boot for a while? My systems are pretty stable yet complicated (lots of software, configs, codecs, preferences, multiple users) - but I typically do not "reformat" during the life of an OS and have never needed to for performance or stability. Will allowing or disallowing the creation of this extra Win7 partition interfere with future resizing and multibooting? I realize this may be a best guess as "Win8" is a total unknown.
Thanks,