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BFK, It appears the boot files are on the vista partition. I have told him to disconnect the vista HD and run startup repairs with only win 7 disk attached.
BFK, It appears the boot files are on the vista partition. I have told him to disconnect the vista HD and run startup repairs with only win 7 disk attached.
BFK, disk management shows window7 atributes as active, boot, page file. Does that mean that the boot files are on 7? It looks right except it does not show system file.
Hello Steve, we're all a team here.
The flag System shows where the system volume (the system boot files) are located, the flag Active shows Windows (WinRE) where to (re)create the System boot files and the flag Boot simply shows the Windows that is running.
hey guys i disconnected the vista hard drive and it didnt boot up, so i went and done the 3 system repairs on the 7 hard drive and it booted up fine, in disk management it now says (system,boot,page file,active,crash dump, primary partition).
so as it stands its all working normally :) .. if i were to plug back in the vista hard drive would it change back? or could i just plug it back in now and format it without damaging the windows 7 os on this hard drive now?
thanks again guys you'v been a great help :)
That's great news. I'm glad you got it fixed the way you want it. Assuming everything boots right when you reconnect the vista drive, you can delete and clean the vista drive.
did that and it just booted straight into windows 7 no problems. Iv formatted the vista hard drive and now just have windows 7 working perfectly...When you reboot, make sure the HDD that is connected is set as the first boot device in the PC BIOS, then reboot to make sure all is well; then power down and reconnect the other HDD.
thanks again guys really appreciate all your help! :)