Windows 10: Dual Boot question

Wouldn't the answer be a big YES for you? Can't the Recovery CD that you use to make the backups with also restore them?

 

Of course it can, Backup & Restore, however, my point for the moment, is why W 10 sees all partitions, which means they're mounted, is it by design or a limitation, and also if just removing the drive letter for W7, while on W 10 would be a correct approach... and do the job without side-effects.
I tried 2 times the installation, same results, so, for some reason, W 10 installation setup does this, for dual boot configs...

B/R,

 

Does it really matter if Windows 10 sees the Windows 7 partition or not? If it isn't assigned a drive letter it won't show up in explorer or anywhere else other than in Disk Management and you won't be able to read or write to it in normal operations.

 

As long as C: can be read normally while booting to Windows 7, I do not mind if it's not visible or If I cannot perform any other operations on that W7 disk/partition when I'm on W 10.

 

It's a Windows thing. Windows likes to reside on the C drive. I have a dual 7 and 8.1 set up. When I boot to 7 on the C drive 8.1 is on the D drive. When I boot to 8, it is on the C drive and 7 is on the D drive. Both reside on the physical drive 0

 

OK, I used Computer Management under W 10 and removed drive letter D: (W7 partition).
Now, when booting to whatever OS the drive letter of the other OS does not appear in My Computer. *Smile
No side-effects.....so far.
Will report back in a few days.
Thank you all for your time.