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Changing the active boot partition.
I know that changing the active boot partition can be done without pain with the BCDEDIT Command Line Tool. My question is if it can be done manually without using a third party program?
I read on the Net that that the drive involved in booting needs a Folder named Boot and a file named bootmgr. These are both System objects and remain hidden by default. However on checking in my Computer not only I found these two objects but a few more files that may possibly be needed for booting. These files are config.sys, pagefile.sys and autoexec.bat.
If I copy these 5 objects (1 folder and 4 files) into my System Volume Drive and make it active then would it become the boot drive? I friend of mine who knows the inside out of Computers said that he doesn't know for sure but it may not work. The reason being that during installation the paths get embedded in the files that manual copying would not change but which BCDEDIT Command Line Tool perhaps does.
Anyway I shall try this out on my Grand-daughters computer to see what happens coming Saturday because she is the one wanting the change.
But in the meantime what is the opinion of the sages on this Forum?
Last edited by wanchoo; 07 May 2012 at 23:09.