Win 7 - no disk error

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  1. Posts : 33
    WIndows 7 Professional and Vista Home Premium x64
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    Win 7 - no disk error


    I installed a second HDD and installed Win 7 onto it and then t/f all data from the original VISTA HDD over.

    Been running just fine for a few months. Decided to remove the old VISTA drive and now I get "no disk" error when I boot

    I assume that the boot files reside on the old VISTA drive as I used to get the boot manager screen asking which OS to boot.

    What is the easiest way to make the Win 7 disk bootable now?

    TIA
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  2. Posts : 1,996
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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  3. Posts : 578
    Windows 7 Pro x64
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    The reason that happened is Windows, all versions, installs files on the first drive in the system no matter what drive you install the operating system to.
    So when you installed the new drive, and it not being the first drive, and installed Win 7 on it Win 7 copied files to the drive that Vista was on, the first drive in the system. Once you removed that drive all the boot files were gone.

    Not sure a repair install will fix this but it's worth a try.
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  4. Posts : 33
    WIndows 7 Professional and Vista Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    It appears that trying a repair install will not resolve this as the drive dies not seem to even be recognised!

    Any other ideas?
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  5. Posts : 1,996
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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    richdave said:
    It appears that trying a repair install will not resolve this as the drive dies not seem to even be recognised!

    Any other ideas?
    The boot order may have changed. Go into the BIOS and make sure that the HDD you're now using is selected. If you select the drive and it still doesn't boot, then change the boot drive to optical (CD/DVD) and try Startup Repair.
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  6. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    Startup Repair
    Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times.
    Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times
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  7. Posts : 33
    WIndows 7 Professional and Vista Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
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    Thanks theog for the post. Unfortunately it did not help. I have booted many times and tried a repair to no avail.
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  8. Posts : 578
    Windows 7 Pro x64
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    richdave said:
    Thanks theog for the post. Unfortunately it did not help. I have booted many times and tried a repair to no avail.
    If you put that vista disk back in your PC it will boot to Win7 or if it is setup as a dual boot you will have that back again also.

    All the files to start either Win7 or Vista are on that other drive. Without it the system will not boot. As you have found out.
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  9. Posts : 33
    WIndows 7 Professional and Vista Home Premium x64
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    Shootist said:
    All the files to start either Win7 or Vista are on that other drive. Without it the system will not boot. As you have found out.
    yeah I get that... I want to "fix" things so I can remove or reformat the VISTA hdd

    Is there a solution?
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  10. Posts : 33
    WIndows 7 Professional and Vista Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
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    richdave said:
    Is there a solution?
    well YES actually and an easy one too.

    I booted with the VISTA drive in place and selected Win 7 from the boot menu

    Then I installed EasyBCD2.02 and used it to resolve my problem.

    From the main menu, I clicked on BCD Backup/Repair, then selected change boot drive, Then selceted "C" (the Win 7 drive)

    and viola! The HDD was made bootable. After a shut-down and removing the VISTA drive I rebooted and got the boot menu again and selected Win 7 and booted OK

    I then used EasyBCD to delete the VISTA entry from the boot menu via the Edit Boot Menu option.
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