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This makes no sense to me.I have 2 W7s on 1 drive.
@greg
Could these programs be use be causing this mess?
DualBootPro
Disk Director
In what sense is the "audio partition" an "OS system"?? Do you mean you want it to be bootable and not require ANY other drive or partition?
It appears to be a drive, not just a partition.
Do you mean that the "audio partition" can now boot your PC with the other drive disconnected?
I, for one, am not clear on what you want, what you have now, and what you think you have now.
Last edited by ignatzatsonic; 19 Jul 2015 at 16:56.
Thank you ignatzatsonic.
You made my day. Seem I'm not the only one that doesn't understand.
How does one install Windows 7, 2 times on one drive with one partition?
That would be possible using a Virtual Machine, but i doubt that is what 2pods is doing.
@2pods
If you can boot the "Audio" drive, which i think you are saying you can, please post a Disk Management screen print while "Audio" is booted.
Then we could see if each disk has a bootloader, or you have a single bootloader on the "OS" drive used for 2 OS's.
I meant that the "audio" partition is a copy of my "OS" system partition i.e. Windows 7, except that the "audio" partition has no MS Office, etc. Just the bare W7 plus audio programs.
In the beginning I had a drive divided into two, with C: being W7 plus MS Office and all my email, browser, day to day stuff, and D: being a logical drive with only W7 and my audio programs. Dual booting via DualBoot Pro.
I then wanted to do away with the C partition, leaving the D becoming the active partition and reclaiming the disk space.
As I had a spare ssd, I thought I would copy via True Image, C: to the new drive (I replaced the internal optical). This was fine.
It's when I wanted to reclaim the space back from the C and make the D: W7 with audio a complete disk that my memory started to fail me. So where am I now ?.
I wish I knew. I used to know this as I have done it before. Anyway I now have my original ssd (Bare W7 with audio programs) as one whole disk, and the old c: (W7 plus MS Office) now on another ssd. I've run the repair disk and all is OK.
Except. I have to select the main ssd after selecting the "old C" partition from the bios boot and then being presented with DualBootPro's selection memory.
Sorry for the saga. I'll post the disk manager pic as soon as I can.
Last edited by 2pods; 19 Jul 2015 at 17:32. Reason: forgot something
We should have seen a screen print of disk management from before you started making changes, but it's too late for that now.
If you can boot the Audio drive, post a Disk Management screen print when Audio is booted.
I didn't go the Virtual Machine road because I didn't think that is what 2 pods is referring.
Logical drive should show up in Disk Management.By creating a logical drive.
One more time.
We need a proper posting of Disk Management. Without it we are lost.
Don't change things and then post it. We need it as your system was having problems.