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dual booting xp and 7 - migrating files necessary if two partitions?

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evesira

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Hello,

I currently am running Windows XP Home Edition 32 bit and I wish to dual boot Windows 7 64 bit (or perhaps just replace eventually). I have two internal hard drives. Since both OSes use that same NTFS file format, I shouldn't have to do any file migration, should I? I should be able to create a new partition on one of the drives for 7, and then I should be able to access all the files I have on my drives.

I shouldn't have trouble setting up the dual boot system itself, as I can just follow online guides for that. But I can't seem to find a concrete answer on whether I will have to migrate my files.

For safety, I have all my important personal files backed up on an external, but I would have to reinstall all my software. Also, I would have to reinstall my many sample libraries (I'm a music composer) which are hundreds of gigs each.


Am I speaking complete nonsense? Any insight would be much appreciated.

Thanks
 
Your documents and music and pictures and so on should be accessible by both.

Programs would generally have to be reinstalled. I'm not sure about the music samples, I don't know how the software for that works.

If you're using Outlook for your email, you'd have to have separate PST files for your email, and it would probably make more sense to move over to IMAP.
 
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