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Got the RC, it kicks ass.

Except for one thing: It doesn't see one out of two partitions on my storage HDD.

Ideas?
 
If you haven't already, open up the Computer Management console (right-click "Computer" on your start menu and click "Manage" on the context menu, if you don't know how) and then select the Disk Management utility. See if you didn't accidentally install to the wrong partition like a friend of mine did. Post a screenshot if you aren't sure about it.
 
Um. No, I installed the OS on my C drive. My storage drive is another thing, and has two partitions, D and E.

For some strange reason, it lists my invisible Games partition as "system", although it uses C for Boot, Page file, Crash Dump. :s

The hell?

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EDIT2: Forget it. During the installation process, it somehow erased the partition's letter, as you can see in the pic above. I assigned a new one, and it works perfectly.
 
It might be possible to get them to send you a copy for evaluation. A friend of mine got one by mail. Guess it might depend on where you live and/or work.
 
I am using windows 7. And, it can run fallout.
All i can say, it works very well, and i am not downgrading to vista, nor am i going to change back to XP SP3.
 
Win 7 Ultimate, Professional and... um, one more, come with a fully functional Win XP SP3 in a virtual machine. You can use the VM directly, or you can install program and run it from Win 7 transparently (without having to start the xp vm bla bla bla.
 
DexterMorgan said:
Win 7 Ultimate, Professional and... um, one more, come with a fully functional Win XP SP3 in a virtual machine. You can use the VM directly, or you can install program and run it from Win 7 transparently (without having to start the xp vm bla bla bla.
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Anyone can run a VM, but you need a processor with virtualization support for 7's XP mode with its fancy no-separate-VM-desktop-needed.... ness. Shouldn't be a problem for most people with decent computers, though, since most modern processors that aren't of the budget bracket have this functionality. :D
 
When you buy a new computer with Vista you get a code to upgrade it to Windows 7 when it comes out.
My bro got one when I ordered his new laptop.
 
Leon said:
The Disk Management utility is a useful thing.
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Yep, that has been available since XP. It now includes features to shrink, extend and partition drives/parts that you are already using. Kind of like Gpart from Ubuntu does.

Did any of you guys had the windows 7 installer forcefully try to create a hidden partition to install the recovery console?

For some reason, when you format a disk when you are installing Windows 7, it forces a system partition to install the recovery console.
 
SkynetV4 said:
Yep, that has been available since XP.
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Windows 2000, actually, IIRC. Previous systems (NT 4.0 etc, don't know about non-NT systems) had Disk Administrator.

SkynetV4 said:
Did any of you guys had the windows 7 installer forcefully try to create a hidden partition to install the recovery console?
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Yeah, a ~100mb partition. I'm not sure, but I believe it does this only if you have it make a new partition to install to.
 
Apparently if you install on blank space on the disk with no previous partitions installed, otherwise it puts it in root partition. In RTM it's 200MB though.
 
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