Making a partition bootable

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  1. kev0188
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    Making a partition bootable


    hi, well i have 2 OS on my laptop, one was winXP and 7, I had windows XP on my C: drive, then i installed windows 7 in my D: drive, everything was great i loved windows 7 so i decided to remove windows xp, i put in the windows 7 instalation dvd and booted from it and deleted the C: partition, then i rebooted my Laptop and it told me no boot device found, luckly i was able to re-install windows 7 on my C drive without formating the hole HD, so basicly i now have 2 windows 7 on 1 PC and all my files are on the D: drive, so i need to know how can i make my PC boot up from the D: drive so that i can later delete the C: drive without having the same "no boot device" problem.

    and also i left a pic so you can see whats going on




    Also i just found out that it seems like i only have 1 OS on my pc, when i had windows xp i would get the dual boot menu now i dont, the new windows 7 starts up automaticlly
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  3. karlsnooks
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    Deleted the entire mess.

    Kept making one mistake after another.


    Last edited by karlsnooks; 17 Sep 2011 at 05:23. Reason: partition info
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  4. theog
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    Do not mark D: active, as the System Reserved needs to be left marked active.

    Follow this tutorial:
    Partition : Recover Space Used by an Older OS
    You can delete the System Reserved or leave inplace.
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  6. karlsnooks
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    Deleted because of multitude of errors
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  7. karlsnooks
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    @theog,

    I've got to start getting enough sleep. I'm making mistakes.

    Let me check again and make sure things are cleaned up.

    think I had two different windows open and got confused.

    I've deleted everything and tomorrow after sleep, I'll explain the approach which, incidentally, does not require a system reserved partition.
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  8. theog
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    Deleting reserved partition & C:, would make the PC unbootable.

    A startup Repair is need also.
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  10. karlsnooks
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    @theog,
    Very true. I noticed that and that was one of the changes I had put in before I decided to eradicate all and go at tomorrow after sleep.
    Thanks. Let us hope that the thread starter didn't get messed up by my mistakes.
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  11. theog
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    Have a good night sleep.karlsnooks
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  12. kev0188
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    okay so i see i did make quite a mess, but i want to know if this is an option,
    can i just pass all my files from my D: partition to the C: partition and then delete D: and the reserved space? so that then i will only have 1 partition and not a big mess
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  13. theog
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    Have you read the tutorial in post 3?
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