Re: New install on new drive - access denied for old folders...

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> Do you have a dual boot environment? Leaving an "active" OS on the
> system, even if it is a slave, a clean install will see this,
> compensate, & think your are "adding" an OS.........

No, it's not a dual boot environment. Also, now that I think about it,
the slave is connected but to a RAID card that the OS didn't (or
couldn't) see until I installed the drivers for it. The very first time I
actually got to the GUI and opened windows explorer, the slave did
not appear as a drive. And when I went into the device manager, it
showed the RAID card with a yellow question mark. So I don't think
that the install could have seen anything on the slave during the install.
Plus, when the machine boots up, I'm not given an option for which
"Windows" I want to boot to. With that being the case, how could
the install think I was "adding" an OS? If it did, wouldn't it create an
additional entry in the boot.ini to allow me to select my old OS?

thnx,
Christoph


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