Getting rid of Vista

[torrentg]

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.

 

[barney]

yup yup how do I do that? please

barney

 

[barney]

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

best

barney

 

[YupYup]

run elevated command prompt and type bcdedit

 

[torrentg]

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...

 

[barney]

yup yup this is what I got
what do you see please?

 

[torrentg]

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.

 

[12eason]

You still haven't marked the Win7 partition as 'Active'.

 

[barney]

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

 

[YupYup]

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.

 

[torrentg]

Hmm...I thought that once booted from the 7 drive where the boot files were copied to, then running the bcdedit command, it would then report as C:.

Am I wrong about this? not too sure

 

[barney]

Changed the bios to boot from windows 7 disk but on checking bcedit the boot manager is still on the d drive hellpp! how do I change please/

thanks

barney

 

[YupYup]

Hmm...I thought that once booted from the 7 drive where the boot files were copied to, then running the bcdedit command, it would then report as C:.

Am I wrong about this? not too sure

Somehow i doubt that, instead of checking all the bcd entries and setting them correctly etc the easy solution would be to disconnect the power on the vista drive boot to the win 7 dvd and do a startup repair.

edit: first mark the win 7 partition active

 

[torrentg]

On my pc downstairs, I moved the boot files from D: to C: just like we did here. Changed bios to boot from C:. Did not do anything else at all. This was months ago.

I just Damewared into it, and ran bcdedit and this is what I got:

 

[YupYup]

Never tried it that way so i can't say. Normal procedure is to export bcd to new location , correct the entries in the new bcd for the new location, correct the boot sector for the new location, mark the drive as active and of course move the files. but like i said unplug and do a startup repair is way easier, or use diskpart to clean the vista partition and do a startup repair.

 

[barney]

Hello All

Disconnected vista drive, did startup repair, repaired, rebooted into windows 7, reconnected vista drive, checked bcdedit all now in 7 and on c drive, deleted vista partition through disk management no problems.
Happy, thanks again for all your help.

best

barney

 

[torrentg]

Cool, glad you got it sorted!

Now allocate those unused partitions you have and make some use of them lol!