Help in marking a partition 'not active' for system backup

Hi We have three PCs connected on a network. One is dual boot with Win7 and Win10 (very recently sorted with help from Gregrocker) whilst the other two are both Win7 only with no System Reserved partition. What I want to do is to have both latter PCs with a System Reserved partition and remove...

So, basically, after salvaging an old laptop that had Vista preinstalled, and without thinking, I shrinked the 70GB partition, and used the free space to install Windows 7. Now, I'm not saying it's broken, but I want to get rid of the Vista partition, and I want to do it without the installation...

Current Master Drive (C:) : OCZ-VERT EX2 SCSI (my SATA Drive) - 60 GB Current Slave Drive (D:) : WDC WD10EARS-00Y5B1 ATA - 1 TB My computer used to have a boot file set on my slave drive, but OS installed on my master. So i eventually reformatted it so that my boot AND OS was installed on my...

Hello there. I have a single Hard disk drive in my laptop which is divided into two partitions and in one partition is Windows vista Starter installed when I bought it..So I decided to use Multi boot and I installed Windows 7 Ultimate in the other partition... Now my question is can I safely...

i want to set my third partition as system. because i have my windows 7 there clean installed not like in my system partition. i want to do this to make sure that any other errors and bugs from the previous OS in my system partition wont be transfered to my windows 7 there. i tried to set it...