Current dual boot-deleting Vista

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  1.    #11

    Looking at the drive map, my question would be what he needs the recovery partition in the prime real estate for? If it came with Vista, it should go with Vista since it no longer will work anyway. You need to keep your Vista recovery disks separately in case you ever need them (which you won't if you keep an image of the drive).

    I'd delete both recovery and Vista and copy 7 into that space. SIW2?
    Last edited by gregrocker; 26 Oct 2009 at 01:23.
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       #12

    Yes, he could do that if he no longer wants it. Only thing is - you might want to retore to factory state e.g. if you were to sell the machine. If he has Vista recovery discs - then why not.
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  3.    #13

    SIW2 said:
    Yes, he could do that if he no longer wants it. Only thing is - you might want to retore to factory state e.g. if you were to sell the machine. If he has Vista recovery discs - then why not.
    I agree to make the recovery disks as backup before deleting, but my understanding is that the recovery partition becomes disabled when Vista is deleted anyway. Except for Dell apparently, which can stil recover Vista after Vista is deleted. (edit: Dell users posting elsewhere here saying that tip was incorrect - Dell recovery partitions are restored with the disks they create, so they can be deleted once disks are made).
    Last edited by gregrocker; 25 Oct 2009 at 19:22.
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       #14

    when i run startup repair,how long should it take?

    And out of curiosity,why 3 times?
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       #15

    im getting bootmgr is missing
    And windows cant repair
    Done all of the steps,not sure if i done something wrong?
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       #16

    Is the 7 partition Primary and marked as Active?
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    SIW2 said:
    Is the 7 partition Primary and marked as Active?
    Yes.

    I have 2 partitons (Win7) with the same amount of memory used etc.
    I have a Data partition
    I have 39 GB partition unallocated
    And i have a winre partition
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    Memory? I think you mean space.

    You can only have 4 partitions - how come there are 5?

    Which show as Primary partitions, and which show as Logical drives?

    You had 4 to start - you deleted 1 that makes 3.

    You copied the 7partition into the unallocated space to make 4 again.

    (If you followed Greg's idea to delete the little recovery partition as well - you would only have 3.)
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  9.    #19

    Which partitions did you delete?

    If you kept the recovery, it might be corrupting the startup since that disk sector contains the boot files. Better to delete the Recovery sector along with Vista, copy Windows 7 into that space and run Startup Repair repeatedly.

    You run Startup Repair several times because it doesn't always work the first time if there are multiple problems, especially if it is offered up to you when you first enter the Repair console after booting into the INstaller.

    THere are also commands to run from the Repair console command line to repair or rewrite the boot if startup repair doesn't work. Try "bootrec.exe /fixboot" and "bootrec.exe /fixmbr" without quotes.
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    SIW2 said:
    Memory? I think you mean space.

    You can only have 4 partitions - how come there are 5?

    Which show as Primary partitions, and which show as Logical drives?
    Sorry,yes,space.

    Again sorry,one is just unallocated space.

    Win7 -primary
    Win7-Logical
    Data- Logical
    Winre- Primary
    Unallocated- logical
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