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Thank you both for your replies. As a precaution I have copied the Win 7 and XP boot files to a USB stick, which I have just used to reboot my system. Knowing that I can boot from the USB stick, I can then format C: drive to clear everything out if required. toolman59

Thanks Linney The file and folder you have referred to reside on drive C:. This does not have an OS on it, so I will format the drive containing Win 7 Beta, and in due course, when Win 7 RC expires, I presume that another format of the Win 7 RC partition plus the deletion of the folder and file...

What is the correct method to remove/wipe Windows 7 Beta for a clean install of Windows 7 RC on a multi-boot system. At present I have four OS partitions, one of which is Win 7 Beta on drive H:, and three XP home on drives E: F: and G:, the Win 7 boot-loader gives the option of loading Win 7 or...

Linney The Realtek 8139/810x Family fast ethernet NIC drivers are different XP = 5.713.121.2009 (latest version) and Windows 7 = 6.110.530.2008 which most likely confirms your opinion that Windows 7 has better Networking capability. I must say that I like Windows 7. When I eventually get a new...

I installed Windows 7 on my desktop computer of 2001 vintage. This has an AMD Athlon 1500mhz CPU with 1.5 gigs of memory. Windows 7 was a clean install on it's own partition, there are two other partitions each with XP SP3 Home. The Internet connection is via a Realtek PCI card, then thro' a...

smah and strongm Thank you both for your help, I will now proceed to the next point of confusion.

strongm Yes I did skip Vista. Thank you, I have found H:\users, some of the folders have an icon with a sort of shortcut arrow in the bottom left corner, none of these folders are accessible, I presume this part of the new culture I have to get used to, are these junction points also?

Smah These are folders within my Windows 7 partition. When I try to open folder "Documents and Settings" from Windows 7, a popup window with this note appears: "H:\Documents and Settings\Is not accessible Access denied" This is a stand alone, single user computer, with myself as...

I should have said folders rather files

How do I make all my files accessible in Windows 7? I have tried various methods without success.

Linney Over the years I have used Partition Magic to add and remove partitions, sometimes these changes resulted in drive letters moving from one partition to another. As a result of this I have used a partition naming system to alert me to drive letter changes as follows on my multi boot...

BobNY Have you got the latest patch for Partition Magic 8? There is a 12MB patch that takes it to 8.01. I have just used PM 8.01 to partition a 1TB ext. HDD without any problem, this was on XP Home SP3. toolman59

My experience for what it is worth regarding a USB2 external HDD is as follows. In the past week I connected up a "Maxtor OneTouch 4 Plus" 1TB Ext HDD to a fairly old Athlon box with 1.5GB of memory running XP SP3. The USB2 is via a PCI Card like Bronan's, at the same time I attached a good...

I am currently running SS 9.8 on XP. I would like to know if there are any problems when running SS 9.8 on Vista. toolman59

Thanks Linney, the link to drivemax.com is worth a star as far as I am concerned. toolman59