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Change my Windows 7 drive to System Partition?
So, previously I was running Xp, and somehow it was in a state of decline and decided to move on to Windows 7. I had an alternate internal HD, so I formatted that and installed Windows 7 apparently without issue. Currently I have 2 internals with 2 (more or less) functional OS. BIOS allows me to chose the one to run. However, my unstable XP drive (I'm unsure if the disk or the windows system is causing the instability) is still considered the System partition. I'd like to format it to remove the old XP completely. I'd like to find a way to make the partition that runs Windows 7 the System partition.
This became clear to me when the old drive crapped out and in BIOS i received the cannot find NTLDR (it could not detect that drive, and relied on it's boot files to start up any OS, at least that is my understanding). That old XP drive displays very odd behaviors, and sometimes windows 7 loses detection of it in explorer.
However, when in Windows7, it will not allow me to format the XP drive. Both in explorer and Disk Managment the option is not allowed. Now, how can I change my partition that Windows 7 runs from to be the main system to avoid further problems? And will any further problems go away if I find a way to format and remove the XP system, or is the disk that contains the XP system somehow damaged? Should I go and replace that drive entirely?
Also, my partition containing Windows 7 is also labeled "Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition" in disk management. I've never seen those status descriptions, are they bad?
Thanks for the help.