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I am sorry, I have one more question. How to change the active drive???
I will not ask no more questions. I understand now if I put back the drive I
removed, it might want to boot from it and then I am moot.
Thank You Again
Doug
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I might of asked this. If I boot into windows 7 Than reformat my 1st drive
C: & D:. with Vista on it.
Then restart with Win 7 DVD do a repair so it puts Boot on Win 7 Drive which
is E:.??
Or reformat1st Drive C: & D: with Vista
Then Boot up in Windows 7 with DVD do a repair, and it should put the boot
file on Drive E:
Can you tell I am a bit nervous about doing this!!!
I also have Acronis True image. I am trying to avoid using it.
Again
Doug
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I lied, one more question. Right now my C; and E: are active drives.C has
Vista and E: has win 7.
I should leave E: active and change C: not to be active???and How.
I know I am a pain in the ass by now. Trying to learn, and understand why
everything has to be done.
If you do not reply, I will understand
Thanks
Doug
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Hi,
If you just format and do a repair of the boot from the Win7 disk, that will
not change the active drive, and you'll wind up just having the boot file
placed back where they already are. If you want the boot files on the same
drive as Win7, then that volume needs to be marked as [active] using disk
manager.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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If I mark the drive that has Win 7 on it as Active. Then I can boot in win
7, remove windows Vista. When I start after that, I use the DVD and do a
repair to put the Boot Manager on the drive with in Win??
Thanks
Doug
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Hi,
Not quite. Once you change the active drive, you will need to boot from the
disk and repair the boot, making the drive with Win7 the [system] drive.
Once changed, that is where the BIOS will look to transfer control to, so
the boot files need to be placed there before you will get a successful
boot. After completing the repair, you can then format C: and remove Vista.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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