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Safely marking new Win7 install as active
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 disk.
In short, here's my partition table from Disk Management:
Is there a way I can *safely* double-check to see if I can mark my Windows 7 partition as active and not cause a boot error (e.g. ntldr is missing) and force me to use the disk, or can I use Vista's recovery partition to fix/add Win7's boot part of the OS and then mark it as active?
btw, on F8, there is no 'repair your computer' option (for Win7, that is), so I can't do a fixboot from there.
EDIT: after further digging, I found that the Vista partition has the boot folder and the bootmgr file, while Win7 does not. Is it possible to move the folder/file or is there a better way to add the boot part?