Hello everybody, I seem to be in a predicament. This is really only for more advanced users that are more comfortable messing with installations and have experience using Win7 on a seperate partition as where data is stored.
Here's my issue:
I currently have two partitions on one internal hard drive. One partition is a recovery sector pre-installed by HP that works with recovery disks I have. Using those recovery disks will award me with a semi-fresh Win7 OS, the not so fresh part is that HP installed all their shitty software on the iso disks and there's no way to edit the disks to remove that info as they're bootable .iso disks. I have a legitimate Win7 disk with no cluster-fuck software so I'm not worried about that. The thing I am worried about is that I want to have Win7 on one partition while storing my data on another partition to maintain as much organization as possible. However, I already have my C: drive with Win7 installed on it (that is the second partition mentioned above). I am afraid if I create a third partition, boot from my Win7 disk, then install it on that partition, I won't be able to boot into either partition because Windows may become confused and not know how to handle two separate Windows OS'.
I think a sensible solution would be to just install Win7 on my C: drive, then when it's all installed, just shrink it into another partition, then it would be as easy as selecting to save all my data to the other partition.
My question is will my solution work or are there other steps I'll need to take.
P.S. Backing up my current data is not an issue.
