Comments on: How to Access Vista Partition from Windows 7?

By: sameem

sameem — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:28:16 +0000

hello. i dont know how to do the parrtition for windows vista without losing the data n the oringinal windows.
eventhough; i tried the way of disk management but it didnt work . so could u give me the nessesaary information to do this ?
thank from ur attention

By: Jozcoz

Jozcoz — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:50:58 +0000

That just lets me see that the drive exists, but to actually open files it says I don’t have the user rights. Can you help?

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:40:39 +0000

Thanks! Works superb..

By: Bimmy Chainsaw

Bimmy Chainsaw — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:28:52 +0000

Great guide but just going to say one thing . . . easiest way to get to Disk Management is Start >> right-click Computer >> Manage. Just saying.

By: BillB

BillB — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:07:24 +0000

I am running vista and Beta 7, selected 16 gig for beta 7, have repartitioned two more partitions and want to add the space to the original beta 7 partition, please be explicit, I am 86 years old, bb

By: B Balde

B Balde — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:50:52 +0000

Thanks…

By: JL

JL — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:18:27 +0000

sweet, thanks…
In didn’t want to mess it up… Now I tried it and works beautifully

By: Mr.Byte

Mr.Byte — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:04:53 +0000

@JL, No it will not affect Vista. Each OS just sees the partition and the letters are assigned just independently in each OS.

By: JL

JL — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:53:09 +0000

I recently installed windows 7 on my laptop. I’m dual booting with Vista.

I have this same issue and understand that merely assigning a drive letter to my Vista partition from W7 will allow me to access it.
My doubt, however, is if this will cause any issues when I boot to my Vista partition (since, within Vista that partition already has a drive letter)

any clues?

By: Narendra.s.v

Narendra.s.v — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:02:30 +0000

thanks for the info. It worked for me after following the prescribed steps