Hi, I'm going to be installing the Windows 7 beta onto my system as a "dual boot" along with my existing Vista-64. These OS's are going to be on separate partitions. After reading about the MP3 corruption issue, I was wondering if there was a way to stop Windows 7 from accessing or even seeing my existing Vista partition?There's probably a way to do it using permissions, but I'm really concerned about changing the permission of the root folder since I've lost an OS in the past by doing just that and then "replacing permission entries on child objects."Thanks,/\/\ark

As long as you don't add/change the MP3s on your Vista partition via Windows 7, things should be fine. Run the patch and copy a few files over to the Windows 7 partition and test them out before doing them all.If you're concerned, as you should be, just make the folder containing the MP3s read-only. You shouldn't have to change the root folder - unless you've put all your MP3s in the root directory for some odd reason.

HiMPrenter,Once you install Windows 7, you can go into the Disk Management console (run diskmgmt.msc oruse control panel). Right click the volume(s) that you do not Windows 7 to "see" and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths". You can then remove the drive letter assignment for the drive. I believe this will get you what you are looking for.However, it is always very important to back-up any valuable data before installing the Beta.Thanks.-Adrian

MN-Paradox, thanks for the reply. I'd like to completely hide my existing data from Windows 7. The only thing worse than corrupted data is corrupted data that you don't know about. Right now, only MP3's are effected. I just don't want any surprises in the future....even with backups. :-)Adrian, that sounds EXACTLY like what I was looking for. I didn't know that option existed. THANKS!!/\/\ark

Just a warning...I had it installed as a dual boot on a win xp basic system, Install was to a new formatted hard drive. I had to remove it because I needed the hard drive. XP could not format the hd because a win 7 was using it. I tried everything I could to close the win7 app but ended up removing the hd and doing a fresh xp install.

HiMPrenter,Once you install Windows 7, you can go into the Disk Management console (run diskmgmt.msc oruse control panel). Right click the volume(s) that you do not Windows 7 to "see" and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths". You can then remove the drive letter assignment for the drive. I believe this will get you what you are looking for.However, it is always very important to back-up any valuable data before installing the Beta.Thanks.-Adrian It would not let me remove the drive letter assignment for my vista partition (F). However, there is a right click option to "delete volume..." so would I use that to just make my Vista partition invisible to Windows 7 or would that wipe out Vista which I don't want to do?

It would not let me remove the drive letter assignment for my vista partition (F). However, there is a right click option to "delete volume..." so would I use that to just make my Vista partition invisible to Windows 7 or would that wipe out Vista which I don't want to do? Um.. Only if you want your Vista partition to vanish forever. The last thing you want to do is DELETE the VOLUME....

Yeah, that's kind of what I thought, that's why I didn't delete it and asked about it on here to verify. So, now I'm back to the initial problem. Why can't I remove the drive letter assignment for my Vista partition on Windows 7? Any fix or other way. I really don't want Windows 7 to see the Vista partition because when I do a virus scan it takes forever because it scans both the Windows 7 partition and the Vista partition.