You're mad because the drives are out of order?

You can change that you know.

No you can't...the BIOS has them in order on the ports. Of the four ways to view my HDD's in Win7, only any TWO agree. There is NO WAY to get the Disk #'s AND drive letters in order.

/e Now on XP you could do it...but not on the new and improved Win7 LOL

This post was edited by ghot on Oct 17 2012 05:43pm

Yes, yes you can.

Surely you should know this since you spend half your time looking at how to tweak windows.

well U explain it to me...remember the Disk #'s have to match the BIOS and the drive letters have to be in order. Also, there must be NO System Reserve Partition.

/e and even then, IF it was possible...Disk Management and My Computer won't agree.

/ee I also discovered why no one in their right mind uses Windows 7 Backup software...It has zero to no configuration options and can't even mildly compress a backup image...AND takes twice as long to make an uncompressed full sytem Image back than Acronis does....and compressing is supposed to take LONGER :/

/eee Currently I have 22GB of data on my C: partition....Windows backup...makes a 26GB backup...Acronis makes a 7.8GB backup, on the lowest (least) compression level....and both restore the C: partition perfectly LOL

This post was edited by ghot on Oct 17 2012 06:03pm

Also lovin these temps....

Ambient: 63 degree Fahrenheit = 17.2C




/e Nothing is overclocked yet, and these are idle temps.

This post was edited by ghot on Oct 17 2012 06:29pm

That is idle right?

I don't like the I.R.Q.s within Windows because they aren't reassignable . . .

This post was edited by L4d on Oct 17 2012 08:18pm

Well after the 7th re-install of Windows...I finally KNOW how to install w/o the reserve partition...easily...it's a free .iso called Mini-Tool Partition Wizard Boot CD.


http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html

For anyone, experienced or not..this is the boot CD to have...it even has a graphical interface, works on a bare metal drive.

Side Note: I THINK I'm finally getting a handle on Windows 7...LOL







This post was edited by ghot on Oct 20 2012 09:12am

Are you talking about the 100MB reserve partition?

yeah, that is useless except for bitlocker encryption,, and it really messes up backups

/e almost any (inside the OS) partitioning tool CAN make a boot CD, but ti's usually a pain in the arse.

/ee and btw Acronis True Image Home 2010 makes backups 1/3rd the size of Windows backups in 1/3rd the time...and has an easy interface.

This post was edited by ghot on Oct 20 2012 09:27am