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Disk 1
HP (C: ) is the vista drive that came with the PC. Currently up and running fine. Machine boots into this drive on start. (D: ) is self explanatory - stupid "recovery" partition from HP instead of OS disks.
Disk 0
Brand new WD Black 1Tb drive.
(E: ) partition created during Win7 install. This is the partition I moved "to the left" 100Mb (see original post). Holds win7 OS and if marked active would be the first to boot.
The rest of the disk is unallocated and will become a data "drive" with a letter as soon as I iron out the problems with the Win7 startup.
Question:
Since I did make a system image via win7 backup and restore (fit on one DVD) just prior to all problems (BEFORE I moved the E: partition to the left) should I just restore that image to Disk 0? Will the image still work? I'm asking because I wonder if, after the partition move and the rest of the problems I've had since - repeated startup repairs - do I still have a "nice clean install of Win7" or have I corrupted it in someway that will come back to bite me later? Would I be better off going back to that image (as opposed to reinstall of win7 so to avoid activation issues).
Thank you.