I have some similar questions and was hoping you could help out a bit more. Here are my details:
Right now I'm running XP on an HDD (also running the RC of Win 7, but am going to delete that partition before doing the upgrade anyways)
I just bought one of the X-25 V drives (40Gb) and an OEM copy of Win 7. What I'd like to do is install Win 7 to the SSD and keep the HDD contents the way they are - the HD drive will technically be an OS drive, but I'll be using it as a Data drive.
So my questions:
1. If I do keep the content on the HDD and want to access the personal folders (My Docs, etc.) then will running as admin in Win 7 be able to take over ownership attributes of personal folders in Win XP?
2. Again, assuming I keep the HDD as is without a format, what about running programs that I keep on it from the HDD even though the SDD is the OS Drive. I'm thinking here of MS Office, or Steam or iTunes, for example. Since they won't show up in the Win 7 registry, will I even be able to run them? My guess is no, but its worth asking anyways.
If it looks like its going to be too clunky to keep the old HDD running side by side with the new OS on the SDD, then I'll probably back up all of the data, format and then use it for programs & data that don't fit on the SDD.
If I do reformat the HDD and decide to locate Data there, can I tell Win7 to relocate the Personal folders (which I assume would have been located on the SDD by default when I install Win 7 since the other Drive wouldn't have been present yet)?
EDIT: Found the answer to the last question - once I do have the HDD formatted and installed, I'll just point the location of the personal folders to the HDD