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This should not be in General forum as we solve many of these dual boot extractions every day in Installation and Setup.
Suggest you copy files via explorer from Vista to Win7. Forget settings; importing them is a corruption path.
No need to mark Win7 active as it already is.
Unplug the Vista drive, plug cable into Win7 drive, making sure Win7 remains first HD to boot in BIOS setup, after DVD drive.
Boot into Win7 DVD Repair console, click through to Recovery Tools and run Startup Repair up to three separate times to attempt repair and then rewrite the MBR to Win7 drive.
You can now plug in Vista drive to use as a data drive or even boot it from BIOS using key given on first bootup screen for Boot Menu. If you want to format it, you may need to use special Diskpart "Delete Partition Override" command.
Last edited by gregrocker; 03 Jan 2010 at 04:37.