So, I installed 64 bit Windows 7 on my computer, all seems good except the system paritition is not on the disk I installed Windows 7 to. I can not get inside the computer to remove one hard drive and then reinstall and I would prefer not to even reinstall again.
Disk E is my USB Stick.
Is there anyway to manually fix this:?
Easiest would be to transfer the bootmgr to C - then you can disregard the system partition. Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD
The reason your system partition landed on Disk0 is because the installer always grabs the disk with the lowest port number for it.
A good process is to open an administrative command prompt and type bcdboot C:\Windows /s C: to put the boot files on the C: partition, then make C: partition active with diskpart or Disk Management.
You will then have to change the boot order or make the partition on the other drive inactive, which can be done using diskpart.
Diskpart
lis dis
sel dis 0 <- make sure this is the drive you want to work on.
lis par
sel par 1 <- make sure this is the correct partition number
inactive
exit
Just an alternative if you felt like doing it yourself.
In the end, I just reinstalled and did it again. It is good now. Thanks anyway.
I still get the result I wanted :)
https://i.imgur.com/I7ge4.png
Did you unplug the other HD's as advised in Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7?
Using EasyBCD or line commands to move the System boot files will not place the System Recovery Options on F8 Advanced Boot Options which is why the Best Practice for moving the boot files has always been to mark the target partition Active then run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times. This also tests all variables to make sure nothing goes awry.
Greg, he has no recovery partition. So I don't think it matters if he loses the F8 capability.
That's not just for Recovery, Wolfgang. I'm not sure why System Recovery Options tutorial says that, but those are onboard WinRE tools which are best included on every Win7 installation, and only written by the installer or running Startup Repair 3 separate times on the Active partition:
Yeah, you have a point there. I guess I never use these tools because I rely totally on my images. But for a lot of paople those are certainly useful.
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