Windows 7: removing VISTA (c:\) with win7 (J:\) - how???

Hi NH,

That seems to indicate there is no folder called Boot on the F: drive.



Looking at the screenshot - it appears that F: is an optical drive.

Are you trying to copy the boot critical information from C to H ?

It depends on which 7 installation I am booted in. When booted on the WD Green Power 500gb model drive with that being C for the original setup with the RCs the test install is seen as F there.

It should have been the dvd drive since the first of two storage drives is D with another optical drive as E. Somehow the drive letters were shifted there. The quick install of 7 labeled TEST was for testing the Windows Easy Transfer tool seen in 7. Not being the boot host drive it never saw a boot folder for the BCD to begin with.

I found an easy solution for recovering boot files.
I just used windows & installer to recover it for me automatically. You dont need to use any commands.

1)go to BIOS and set the hdd with Windows 7 as first boot device
-you should end up with error after reboot because there are no booting files on that drive - thats OK :-)

2)boot from Windows 7 DVD and start installing Windows 7 to any other HDD (can be the one with WIN VIS). . The installer is going to tell you that current OS will not be usable anymore. Click OK and install Windows 7.
-now you have all important booting files on the drive with Windows 7 because you selected it as first boot device.

WARNING-Just dont install it on the same drive where is Windows 7 that you want to get working :-)

3)after the file copying is done the installer will restart your PC.Turn your PC off and disconnect all HDDs except the one with Windows 7 on it.

4)boot from Windows 7 DVD again. But go to the Repair section. It will repair your booting files
. So it will not try to load NEW Windows 7 installation but the old one.

Sorry about my English :-). But I think that you get the point.

Hello Sairuscz, welcome to Seven Forums!

Thanks for the info but that all is covered in the tutorial at the link below.

Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times

We have come a long way in the year since this thread was posted!

Hundreds of users have been helped to simply delete or unplug the old OS, mark Windows 7 active, then run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times.

What wasn't know at that time is that they automated all of the bootrec and bootsect commands in Windows 7 Startup Repair.