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If you feel more comfortable, use free Macrium. Here is my complete video tutorial. With Macrium I know it works, with Ghost I have never tried that operation. And with Macrium we can help you more too.
If you feel more comfortable, use free Macrium. Here is my complete video tutorial. With Macrium I know it works, with Ghost I have never tried that operation. And with Macrium we can help you more too.
Again, thanks for the tip. I'll watch the video and download Macrium. My ssd won't get here for a few days. But now I think I'll be ready for the "process". Thanks for your help. I'll let you know what happens.
Long story. I thought it was booting from C. My original C drive crashed. I added another 500 GB drive and restored everything to it from Norton Ghost 15. I then reformated the old drive. I thought it wiped clean and became drive I, which is for data only.
I want to boot from C. What do I need to do
Msconfig shows it booting from c. There is a boot option for I, but I disabled it. It goes into a loop when It tries to boot from I
Last edited by garyh99; 06 Jan 2011 at 20:05. Reason: added things
Your System boot files are located on I, which is still marked Active and booting your OS.
To fix this, open an Elevated Command Prompt, type:
DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 0 (confirm from disk list this is data drive)
SEL PARTITION 1
INACTIVE
SEL DISK 1 (confirm this is Win7 HD)
SEL PART 1
ACTIVE
EXIT
Now power down to unplug DISK0, set DISK1 C to boot first in BIOS setup, boot Win7 DVD Repair console or REpair CD, accept any offered Repair. When Win7 doesn't start, boot back into Repair, click through to Recovery Tools list to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times to write the System MBR to Win7 partition.
System Repair Disc - Create
Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times
Hello mate.
Have a look at the 3 separate snips listed in Option Two of this tutorial for some information.
Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times
This one will show how to boot the Windows disk to diskpart.
DISKPART : At PC Startup
Scared the bejesus out of me, but it worked! Only had to run through startup repair once to create a bootmgr on the correct disk.
Now disk manager shows disk 0 (I:) as Healthy (Primary Partition), and disk 1 (C:) as Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
All back to normal and I can await the arrival of my ssd.
Thanks, guys.
Now I've got some old windows files on my I drive (disk 0) that I want to delete, but they won't delete. Says I need administrative permission...But I'm the administrator. What's up with that?????
If you feel comfortable transferring your OS with the "on-board facilities", you are all set (we will, of course help you if needed). Else, for $19.95 there is this Paragon program that makes the migration a piece of cake. I have tested it. Works very well and is super easy to use.
Try Take Ownership: Take Ownership ShortcutNow I've got some old windows files on my I drive (disk 0) that I want to delete, but they won't delete. Says I need administrative permission...But I'm the administrator. What's up with that?????