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Not dual boot
I have a removable drive caddy in my PC. Currently the internal disk has Vista 32 and I want to keep it like that for a while (I want to use Win7 for a while before I commit to it). I want to install Win7 on the removable drive, but I do not want to dual boot because sometimes I want to remove that drive and use an Ubuntu drive instead. Note that although the caddy makes a drive removable (ie I can pull it out of the front of the machine) all it does is connect to a SATA connection on the mobo, hence the drive is actually an extra fixed disk.
1) I booted from the win7 DVD and told it to install win7 on the new hard drive. This worked but it edited bcd on the Vista drive to dual boot. I can only boot to win7 through the dual boot menu, if I press F12 at startup and tell my Dell to boot from the win7 disk it says that it cannot load the OS.
2) I disabled the Vista drive in BIOS so that win7 install cannot see it. I repeat #1, but again I find that I cannot boot to the win7 drive.
3) I tried running "boot repair" on the setup disk which said that it had fixed the issue, but clearly hadn't.
So my questions are :
1) Is there another way to install win7 so that it will not dual boot, and will treat the win7 drive as bootable.
2) If it is possible to do that, then is it also possible to 'repair' what I have to do that.
Richard