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Originally Posted by Ellachanted
Yeah, those unnamed drives in Windows. Don't ever name them unless you want to crash your OS. Started with Windows 7, they are boot drives that contain hidden OS files. I found out about them when I was trying to set up a dual boot system with XP and 7, as a number of my programs hadn't worked well on Vista and weren't upgraded to 7 yet.
It turns out, last time I changed out the hard drive on this computer, I made a system image after loading the majority of the programs. So I just put the new drive in, ran the recovery disc, and loaded the image. Still takes forever to transfer files, even using a 3.0 USB enclosure for the old drive. But so far so good.  |
Now that you mention it. The upgrade reLABELED my (c
Partition
No wonder some mapped drives failed until I remapped .
Dang you M$