Getting rid of Vista

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  1. Posts : 5,747
    7600.20510 x86
       #21

    If you just rebooted without changing the boot drive to the one that has 7 on it in bios, nothing much was accomplished. That needs to be done or you will still not be able to format. (You are still booting from Vista!) And you really wouldn't want to yet either.
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  2. Posts : 25
    Wndows 7
    Thread Starter
       #22

    yup yup how do I do that? please

    barney
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  3. Posts : 25
    Wndows 7
    Thread Starter
       #23

    My bios doesnt specify which drive to boot from just hard drive?
    or can you tell me where to look please?

    best

    barney
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  4. Posts : 910
    Win 7
       #24

    run elevated command prompt and type bcdedit
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  5. Posts : 5,747
    7600.20510 x86
       #25

    barney said:
    My bios doesnt specify which drive to boot from just hard drive?
    or can you tell me where to look please?

    best

    barney
    There's way too many bioses out there for me to know your particular one, but to change the actual boot drive, it's probably a setting or two directly below where you choose HDD, floppy, DVD drive, USB etc...
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  6. Posts : 25
    Wndows 7
    Thread Starter
       #26

    yup yup this is what I got
    what do you see please?
    Last edited by barney; 06 May 2009 at 07:17.
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  7. Posts : 5,747
    7600.20510 x86
       #27

    barney said:
    yup yup this is what I got
    what do you see please?
    Looks good. Just need to change bios now to boot from 7 as I've been saying.
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  8. Posts : 290
    Windows 7077
       #28

    You still haven't marked the Win7 partition as 'Active'.
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  9. Posts : 25
    Wndows 7
    Thread Starter
       #29

    torrentg
    you have been a brick thanks to you for your solution and help
    thaks all for the steer hope this helps others

    best

    barney
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  10. Posts : 910
    Win 7
       #30

    torrentg said:
    Looks good. Just need to change bios now to boot from 7 as I've been saying.
    look again the boot manager is on D , he needs to set it to C.
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