Migrating WoW

[LavCat]

Hi, :)

I did a clean install of my Windows 7 one month ago. I also did a clean install of WoW with my Wrath of the Lich King DVD & had bnupdate bring my WoW up to date. I do it this way to insure that all files are current and not corrupt. I back up my Addon & Screenshot folder and that's it, ALL Files to include our character files are kept on the WoW server.

Thanks for the help so far! At the moment my problems are a lot more than WoW. I can't get my Windows installation to go the way I want. Maybe someone here will have suggestions?

I have Windows 7 Professional Upgrade, as well as the full retail XP Professional. My goal is to create a dual boot DOS/Windows 7 64 installation, with the system partition being drive C and the boot partition being drive F. If anyone wonders why, this has been the way I have installed NT 3.5, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP. (No experience with NT 3.1 or Vista.)

Starting with a fresh hard drive (Seagate ST3300655LW) I used Windows 7 Diskpart to create four primary partitions, and set the first partition active. I then used DOS 6.22 to format the first partition. At this point I had a nice, bootable C drive.

Next I installed Windows 7 Professional from the 64-bit version of the DVD to the second partition. Installation went smoothly except that I never could get the program to accept my product key. Microsoft support was closed for the night but through much trial and error I discovered that a blank product key number works.

Windows 7 booted right up, but of course nothing was right. My boot partition was drive C and my system partition had no drive letter assignment. And I no longer had DOS.

In searching the web I found one person solved the dual boot problem by copying over bootsect.dos. I tried this, but it did not work for me. Maybe I should have reformatted the system partition first? I plan to try again.

The second problem is getting the boot partition to be the right drive letter. Again from the web people say there is no way to assign a drive letter when installing from the Windows 7 DVD, but that this can be done from a scripted installation. How does one do a scripted installation? It sounds like a lot of reading and a lot of work. It may also be possible to get the boot partition to be drive F by adding the right number of discs to the system during the installation. But I have to get dual boot working first.

Any help will be appreciated. How are things in Dalaran?