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two hard drives installed with win7 problem
hi,all, I have a old seagate 1.5 TB hard drive with 2 partitions on my DELL XPS 8300, one was installed win7. I installed a SSD recently, and also installed win7 on it. The problem is every time i boot up my PC, there will be a post shows up asking me to select which Windows 7 that I want to load; another problem is I can not access the 'Users' folder in the system partition on the old hard drive, I want to access the 'Download' folder in the old hard drive so how to solve these problems.
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Philip_Yip
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Posted April 18th, 2013 22:00
You should wipe all drives with DBAN to start fresh. See A Clean Install of Windows 7 in my Windows Reinstallation Guide:
http://philipyip.wordpress.com/dell-community-forums/
To access the folder to copy it, to an external drive to back it up you will need to change permissions/ownership of the folder. See here:
http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to-take-ownership-grant-permissions-to-access-files-folder-in-windows-7.htm
Windows 11 Installation Guide
Windows 7 Installation Guide