how two partitions can be system ? surprise help


  1. Posts : 42
    win 7
       #1

    how two partitions can be system ? surprise help


    as shown in the pic ...c drive contains windows 7 cause i have installed in it and at that time H drive was empty and still empty cause i have formatted it during the installation of win 7 in c drive, but when i open disk management then it shows it is the system partition. the main problem is ,,,when i want to extend the partition c drive adding this empty H drive using third party partition tool then dialog box appears saying''selected partition is boot system partition....'' you can see in the image i have attached.

    so my question is how to make this drive not having system ?
    or is there any method to extend c drive adding this H drive to make c drive large?

    waiting for the solutionhow  two partitions can be system ? surprise help-boot.jpg

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  2. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Utlimate x64
       #2

    Looks like one is a EFI partition;
    Cant really tell you might have to run diskpart;

    Chris
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  3. Posts : 42
    win 7
    Thread Starter
       #3

    hwlp mw expert friend...please
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  4. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #4

    The terminology is somewhat confusing.
    The H: drive (labeled as system) actually contains the boot files while the C: drive (labeled as boot) contains Windows. Both are needed. You could probably make H: smaller and resize C: to fill the space but you would need third party software to do this. Be sure you have a backup of everything on C: before attempting this.
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  5. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    The partitioning has been played around with, H: was C: at one time & 101mb partition was the ACTIVE System Reserved.
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  6. Posts : 42
    win 7
    Thread Starter
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    theog said:
    The partitioning has been played around with, H: was C: at one time & 101mb partition was the ACTIVE System Reserved.
    You may be some what right . wait i will tell the story. once there was one c drive then i shrink the c drive to H drive , that is a new drive. when i installed the window then i formatted both drive and rejected c drive for the windows 7 . so how H drive became a system? now what is the solution for me. can i merge both there two drive even after the warning? please provide of the solution so that i can merge there two drives.
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  7. Posts : 42
    win 7
    Thread Starter
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    theog said:
    The partitioning has been played around with, H: was C: at one time & 101mb partition was the ACTIVE System Reserved.
    may be i am disturbing you,,,but please respond my reply,,,,what if i merge H drive with the C drive...?

    thanks
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  8. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #8

    Merging those drives is asking for trouble. Read my previous post.
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  9. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #9

    What are the :

    1. Contents of H:?
    2. Contents of C:?

    Please provide screen capture images from Windows Explorer to show this clearly.

    Do NOT attempt to merge partitions yet.

    If I am correct, you can copy the bootmanger from H: to C: using EASYBCD as explained in this tutorial:

    Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD

    If that works, then you can remove H: if it is no longer needed.

    However, you MUST first backup all information on C: before doing this as an insurance policy. A better option would be to image the entire disk using something like Macrium.

    Imaging with free Macrium

    Regards,
    Golden
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