Re: Install Windows 7 to volume in extended partition?
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:31 pm
Bob Coleman wrote:
> miesfeld wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. From my other post, I'm not sure how I should have gone
> about
> > this with the existing set up I had.
>
> As to what you should have done given the assumptions that you can have more that
> four primaries and you want the new installation in a primary, I won't say what you
> should have done, but what I think you could have done is:
>
> Reduce the size of the extended partition so that the free space is no longer part
> of it.
>
> Allocate a new primary in the free space which became unpartitioned space.
Okay, thanks Bob.
That's pretty much what I thought afterwards. Thanks for confirming it.
> You probably should have created a Boot Item for the new Win 7 such that the new
> primary was the only partition available. Clear the four MBR slots in that Boot
> Item, then fill one of them with the new primary.
>
> Attempt to boot the new boot item. This will fail because there is nothing there to
> boot, but will leave a state such that only the one partition is visible. The
> installation should install into that partition and not be able to see any others to
> confuse matters.
Then, once I got the install finished, could I add the other Windows partitions to the boot item? Keeping the newly installed Window 7 partition as the first partition in the MBR slots and putting the other 2 Windows installs in slots 2 and 3. I would like to be able to access the files in the other 2 installs when I am booted into the new install.
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Mark Miesfeld
> miesfeld wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. From my other post, I'm not sure how I should have gone
> about
> > this with the existing set up I had.
>
> As to what you should have done given the assumptions that you can have more that
> four primaries and you want the new installation in a primary, I won't say what you
> should have done, but what I think you could have done is:
>
> Reduce the size of the extended partition so that the free space is no longer part
> of it.
>
> Allocate a new primary in the free space which became unpartitioned space.
Okay, thanks Bob.
That's pretty much what I thought afterwards. Thanks for confirming it.
> You probably should have created a Boot Item for the new Win 7 such that the new
> primary was the only partition available. Clear the four MBR slots in that Boot
> Item, then fill one of them with the new primary.
>
> Attempt to boot the new boot item. This will fail because there is nothing there to
> boot, but will leave a state such that only the one partition is visible. The
> installation should install into that partition and not be able to see any others to
> confuse matters.
Then, once I got the install finished, could I add the other Windows partitions to the boot item? Keeping the newly installed Window 7 partition as the first partition in the MBR slots and putting the other 2 Windows installs in slots 2 and 3. I would like to be able to access the files in the other 2 installs when I am booted into the new install.
--
Mark Miesfeld