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If by system recovery, you refer to the capabilities of the "recovery partititon", then simply make yourself a system repair disc:
| type System Repair | Enter
If by system recovery, you refer to the capabilities of the "recovery partititon", then simply make yourself a system repair disc:
| type System Repair | Enter
I don't know what was marked active. D: contains only Microsoft Office which was not put there until just a couple days ago.
I can not get to the repair console by rebooting from the Installation CD and just using the F8 key.
F8 takes me to the "One Time Boot Menu". If I then boot from the location of the Installation Disk I will get to the W7 Installation Disk which begins by Loading Installation Files, Starts Installation, brings up Language Select Window and then an option to go to Repair Console.
Thanks. I believe this puts me at ease.
I am seriously contemplating the relocation of all those Applications that got stuck in with the OS. Everything is working as is but it looks so disorganized and totally rediculous with MS Office the only thing on D: with all that unused space.
I don't know if it really matters but I would prefer having the OS stand alone in a separate partition. I have seen a couple systems with EVERYTHING co-mingled in a single partition. That just does not seem wise though it obviously works. I guess that is sorta what I have.
Dusty,
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Dusty, please follow the steps I wrote out exactly as given and not the last step first.
If you have any questions then ask back, but this time do them in order.
Done as close as I could to exactly as directed. There was some deviation because I did not always understand. I think that there were three iterations before possible success.
Following is a snip of what the HD looks like in diskmgr now.
Using the F8 key, I am able to access the "Advanced Boot Tools". in the "Repair Console. Lacking instructions to do otherwise, I went to W7 normally from here.
The system booted into W7 with no intervention.
If I read and UNDERSTAND all of what has just happened, I have relocated the bootmgr from wherever it was to somewhere on disk 0 partition 0 (along with the OS).
In the snips above, the significant change being that partition 0 is Active and partition 1 is not.
What I do not understand is shown in the first snip (this thread). It shows Disk 0 Partition 1 as System, Active. That partition was never the location of the OS. The OS is on Disk 0 Partition 0.
Is this the location of the bootmgr and not the OS?
Also, I am curious about why the repair routine needed to be repeated two or three or four times to facilitate the repair.
Last edited by dustywoodworker; 09 Sep 2011 at 13:29.
Once again, I want to say thank you to all who have responded to my call for help. Thankfully, it did not take two weeks for me to "catch on" this time.