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Move Win7 to XP partition
I have a 6 year old laptop running XP. I installed Win7 on a logical partition, just to see whether it would be OK on this machine. After locating the right drivers, I now have a basic installation with all updates in place, including SP1. I have made several images using Acronis TrueImage. Now I would like to delete XP and put Win7 on the XP (primary, system) partition.
One way to do it:
- restore my image to the XP partition (this would leave the MBR intact, I suppose)
- delete the first BCD entry with EasyBCD
- change the drive letter of the second BCD entry to C:
Or would it be safer to do a new installation of Win7 on the XP partition, restore the image and delete the first Win7 plus the BCD entry?
Thank you for your thoughts!
See screenshots for EasyBCD and EasusPM output.