Boot issues


  1. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #1

    Boot issues


    Here's my setup:

    Corrupt Vista install on Primary HD
    Win 7 (and soon to be Linux and maybe XP) on a second.

    I want to be able to take out the primary hd to move it to a NAS unit and just have the second hd in. Problem is, the current bootloader is on the Vista drive. I need to know if there is a way to move this to the Win 7 HD without having to reinstall Win 7 at this time, though I know I will have to when it is released.

    Hopefully this is possible. Can anyone help me out?
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  2. Posts : 118
    windows 7
       #2

    remove the primary hard drive and boot from windows 7 dvd and launch start up repair.

    Everything will be fine :)
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  3. Posts : 1,112
    XP_Pro, W7_7201, W7RC.vhd, SciLinux5.3, Fedora12, Fedora9_2x, OpenSolaris_09-06
       #3

    Please post results....

    Most don't...
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  4. Posts : 4
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    At first, the Windows 7 recovery couldn't see my Windows 7 install, so something else was going on.

    I used EasyBCD to write the mbr to the drive I wanted to keep in the system and checked it in Disk Management. The Win 7 partition now said that it was the boot partition, but still not system. I rebooted to the install dvd and entered the recovery options. This time it did see the windows 7 partition, so I shut down and removed the Vista hard drive. Booted back to the Win 7 dvd and ran the startup repair (which literally ran for about 10 seconds), rebooted and everything works now.

    Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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  5. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
       #5

    Glad you got it fixed
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