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Ok I have 2 Hard drives:
320GB with XP installed.
320GB split into 166GB (C:\) and 132GB (E:\)
Installed Windows 7 onto C:\ (after XP) and am using E:\ to store all music, movies and photos. The problem is, I'm running out of space and I need to get rid of XP to use the rest of my 320GB. But all the boot stuff is on the XP drive. I have to point my BIOS to XP which then shows a menu with 'Windows 7' and 'An Earlier Version Of Windows'. If I was to format the XP drive now my W7 drive wouldn't boot. I know this because when I point my BIOS to load from the W7 HDD, it says MISSING NTLDR. I thought this was a file that was used before and up to XP so I don't know why W7 wants it.
BCDEDIT:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...23/bcdedit.jpg
Diskpart:
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...23/dispart.jpg
F and G are DVD drives, with games in :P. I'm guessing H I J K are USB sockets and/or memory card reader.
How can I format the XP drive and boot from C:\. Which files will I need on C:\ to boot Windows 7.
EDIT: I can see a pagefile.sys on both the 7 and XP drives/partitions but the XP one has a little lock icon.
EDIT2: I would be willing to re-install W7 but I am not sure how. I thought of:
Format WXP drive and then copy all programs and personals to it.
Re-install W7.
Copy back all stuff.
The problem with this is that I don't know how to get the programs back into the registry. I could back it all up and import it again but I'm sure there'd be something to do with boot, which would cause my new W7 to not boot. I wouldn't like to re-install everything on HDD since I have filled 160GB with programs. If it's neccassary I could do it as I keep every file I download in a single folder that is so big it can take minutes for windows to count :P (I don't keep replicas of the same stuff so if something is in a rar file then i will keep either the inside of it or keep the rar file, thats a bit off-topic :P)
Last edited by Kallb123; 25 Jul 2009 at 09:37.