Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-05-03 15:16 (GMT-0700) Linda Walsh composed:
Based upon my very limited partition experience with Windows post-XP, I don't believe the above to be entirely accurate in the sense that standing alone it could mislead as to what W7 requires. I've only ever installed such an animal on one system, a (free) Win8beta.
I make no claims about Win8. They may have reversed their earlier decision. But my win7 disk looks like this (this is fdisk running under cygwin, BTW)... law.Bliss> fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1021.7 GB, 1021665345536 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 124210 cylinders, total 1995440128 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf19ce566 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 206848 1791174655 895483904 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT notice it boots from some tiny partition sda1, while sda2 is my driveC. I was NOT able to install Win7 all in 1 partition. I just mounted the tiny partition and found these files---- so if these fiels are on your drive 'C', you're safe... if not, then they are somewhere else. /z: $RECYCLE.BIN/ Boot/ bootmgr* tmp/ $UpgDrv$* System Volume Information/ bootmgr~1* BOOTSECT.BAK* Temp/ bootmgr~2* /z/$RECYCLE.BIN: S-1-5-21-1006899037-1052761141-237244381-1001/ /z/$RECYCLE.BIN/S-1-5-21-1006899037-1052761141-237244381-1001: desktop.ini* /z/Boot: BCD* BootStat.dat* de-DE/ fi-FI/ ja-JP/ nl-NL/ ru-RU/ zh-HK/ BCD.LOG* Fonts/ el-GR/ fr-FR/ ko-KR/ pl-PL/ sv-SE/ zh-TW/ BCD.LOG1* cs-CZ/ en-US/ hu-HU/ memtest.exe* pt-BR/ tr-TR/ BCD.LOG2* da-DK/ es-ES/ it-IT/ nb-NO/ pt-PT/ zh-CN/ /z/Boot/Fonts: chs_boot.ttf* cht_boot.ttf* jpn_boot.ttf* kor_boot.ttf* wgl4_boot.ttf* [Note -- all the language dirs aren't shown for brevity...] /z/Boot/en-US: bootmgr.exe.mui* memtest.exe.mui* /z/System Volume Information: SPP/ tracking.log* /z/System Volume Information/SPP: OnlineMetadataCache/ /z/System Volume Information/SPP/OnlineMetadataCache: {10c9bd04-1e04-4bd4-a9a7-4f324b8c024b}_OnDiskSnapshotProp* /z/Temp: SrtTrail.log* bcdinfo.txt* disklayout.txt* SrtTrail.txt* bootfailure.txt* uploadrecord.txt* /z/tmp: -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org