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SIW2 did I get the steps right above for his extraction?
(Teacher's in the room!)
SIW2 did I get the steps right above for his extraction?
(Teacher's in the room!)
Backup is now running, I know I need to reset the C partition(Vista) to active again but do I need to also do bcdboot command for C ?
Looks OK.
He can set it up to avoid running startup repair by doing bcdboot cmd and then generalizing the bcd entries.
Not for C - it is for the win 7 partition (F as I recall?)
bcdboot f:\windows /s f:
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot
bcdedit /set {default} device boot
bcdedit /set {default} osdevice boot
Not compulsory -just saves running startup repair after resizing the 7 partition. ( As long as bootsector is sound - otherwise you may need one run of it.)
If you are going to delete C and resize F right now (as per Greg's post with PW ) - you can leave F active.
You only needed to set C active again if you didn't have the boot critical files on F and wanted to restart.
Backup will take a little while I guess so have the Partition Wizard disk handy and the W7 Install disk in order to disappear windows Vista!
From Gregs Instrctions above;
1) Boot from Partition Wizard Boot disk
2) Set Win 7 partition (F) to Active - that will automatically make C inactive as I understand as only one partition can be active I believe.
3) Delete Vista partition (C) - I think I will leave HP recovery partition at the moment and do that separately.
4) Resize Win 7 Partition (F) - Do I need to change the drive letter to C at the same time?
5) Aplly all the steps
6) Boot with the Win 7 DVD to get to the Repair Console
7) Run Startup repair 3 times
8) I presume I then Reboot from the hard drive at that point.
Let me know if I have missed anything
Jon
I wouldn't - better leave it as F.4) Resize Win 7 Partition (F) - Do I need to change the drive letter to C at the same time?
The rest sounds ok.
Our posts crossed, SIW2's last slightly confused me.
The Win7 Partition is successfully backed up from Disk Management GUI.
At present F is still active.
Are you saying I should leave it active then run some additional bcdboot commands before I boot from Partition Wizard to delete vista and resize the win7 partition?
If I reallocate Win7 to C is that OK?
Ok we crossed again, I will follow your suggestion reallocation of drive letters
Thanks Greg, decided to do the recovery partition as well, am now going to reboot with Win7 Installation disk