Plan on jumping on Win 7 RC Tuesday (prob 64 bit, see other thread). Trying to see if I should worry about my second data partition getting messed up if I install the RC onto my OS partition.
My current drive is a 1 TB black caviar partioned 200/800.
I plan on installing the RC onto the 200gb OS partition by doing a clean wipe using whatever built in method Win 7 RC employs in the installation process. My current OS install is Win XP Pro SP3 and is only about 3 weeks old.
I assume I will just get an option in the custom installation to install Win 7 on my OS partition and I can just select an move on, with no impact to my 800gb data partition, right?
Also, would there be any benefit, really, to shrinking one of my paritions and dual-booting my XP and Win 7 RC? I would only have the XP for emergency backup in case Win 7 RC failed me. I know you can have XP virtualization, but that wouldn't really help a show-stopper in Win 7.
My current drive is a 1 TB black caviar partioned 200/800.
I plan on installing the RC onto the 200gb OS partition by doing a clean wipe using whatever built in method Win 7 RC employs in the installation process. My current OS install is Win XP Pro SP3 and is only about 3 weeks old.
I assume I will just get an option in the custom installation to install Win 7 on my OS partition and I can just select an move on, with no impact to my 800gb data partition, right?
Also, would there be any benefit, really, to shrinking one of my paritions and dual-booting my XP and Win 7 RC? I would only have the XP for emergency backup in case Win 7 RC failed me. I know you can have XP virtualization, but that wouldn't really help a show-stopper in Win 7.
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