I need to move the boot files of win7x64

I am not at my home computer right now but I can describe what is happening. Initially, I had a hard drive with Vista installed on it. I then installed a second hard drive and installed Windows 7 on that drive. When I remove the drive with Vista on it, I get the bootmgr is missing error. With the Vista disk back in, and booted in 7, in disk manager I noticed the Vista disk has the System attribute and the 7 disk has the Boot attribute. If this isn't enough information, I'll post a screen shot later today when I get home.

gregrocker said:

If you will describe the problem and perhaps post back a screenshot of your full Disk Mgmt Drive map with listings (using Snipping Tool in Start Menu) we can help you with the conventional method for recovering the System Boot Files into Win7 partition: mark Win7 Active, run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times from booted DVD or Repair CD.

Follow Gregrocker's post.

Bare Foot Kid said:

Hello djforsberg, welcome to Seven Forums!


Leave the Windows 7 HDD connected separately and set it as the second boot device in the BIOS after the CD/DVD drive, use Option Two #1 to mark the Windows7 partition as Active and do the 3 separate startup repairs out lined in this tutorial an the link below to (re)create the "System" boot files to that partition.


Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times

Thanks, I'll try that tonight!

Bare Foot Kid said:

djforsberg said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

Hello djforsberg, welcome to Seven Forums!


Leave the Windows 7 HDD connected separately and set it as the second boot device in the BIOS after the CD/DVD drive, use Option Two #1 to mark the Windows7 partition as Active and do the 3 separate startup repairs out lined in this tutorial an the link below to (re)create the "System" boot files to that partition.


Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times

Thanks, I'll try that tonight!

Be sure to post back here to let us know how it sorts out.

Definitely

I would first post the screenshot before you possibly lose the ability to boot and then we are flying blind trying to help you.

There are often unexpected configurations, e.g logical drives which cannot be marked Active, etc.

OK guys, the start repair worked. Thanks very much!

Thank you for updating us.

If you still want to post back a screenshot of your full DIsk Mgmt drive map with listings, we can look it over for any potential problems. Use the Snipping Tool in Start Menu.