New
#1
Moving the boot manager
I've been dealing with this for a while, and since I'm about to move my computer, I can't have hard drives hanging out the side and stuff, so it's time to get it fixed.
About 6 months ago, I got a new hard drive, and installed windows 7 pro on it. My old hard drive with the win7 ultimate beta was still in the computer, and I guess the installer used the bootmgr from the old hard drive, so whenever I try to disconnect the old hard drive, I get the BootMGR not found, ctrl-alt-del to restart, error message.
I tried startup repair, which did not work- when I disconnect the old hard drive, the installer cannot find any windows installations to repair. I played around with bcdedit, but that was a no go, as I really had no idea what I was doing. I tried to manually copy over the bootmgr file, but it gave me some permission error and didn't let me, which was extremely aggravating, as I was running as an administrator.
And here's the bcdedit.
I really want C: to be stand alone, as D: is currently hanging out and lying on the floor next to my computer. The only thing it's used for is the bootmgr.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /enum /v
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=D:
path \bootmgr
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
displayorder {33f63f16-a753-11de-bd9c-e5bc9241decc}
timeout 30
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {33f63f16-a753-11de-bd9c-e5bc9241decc}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7 Professional
locale en-US
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {c75a17ec-a731-11de-9869-806e6f6e6963}
EDIT: I also forgot to mention, as I doubt it matters, but I deleted the old win7 ultimate entry via msconfig.