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Win Install Split Between Two Drives
Ok, so here's my problem that I've been working on for almost ten hours now, hopefully someone can solve it for me in ten minutes (won't hurt my feelings a darn bit).
I have two internal hard drives and one external:
Drive 0: 330gb - Windows 7 installed here on an extended part.
Drive 1: 750gb - Intended to be NTFS Storage Drive, but also wound up containing the 100mb System part. somehow.
Drive X: 500gb USB containing a backup and system image of the two internal drives.
What I'm trying to do (and expected it to be a heck of a lot simpler) is to install the Windows and the System partitions (including bootloader) onto Drive 1 and remove Drive 0.
Problem is, I cannot make an image of just Drive 0 because it doesn't contain the System partition, and because Drive 0 is in an extended partition (God only knows why) I cannot mark it as active and therefore cannot use Windows Repair to make Drive 0 a standalone. At this point, I cannot boot Windows without Drive 1. I say that because I'd planned to repair Drive 0, make a new image, and then install that image onto Drive 1. Because my current image contains both drives and thus cannot be installed onto just one drive.
Any ideas welcome. I have a boot disk of both Win7 and GParted.