Bootmgr file located in different hard disk

[Thinksloth]

Hello i am new to this forum and seek for help.

I have 2 physical disk, when fresh install windows 7 both disk are connected to computer. Today i find that the "bootmgr" is placed on second drive, while the system installed on first drive.

I am afraid if i remove second drive, it cant boot the windows. Do any way to solve this? Please give me an advice.

Thanks

 

[VistaKing]

Unplug the second hard drive and redo a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

 

[Thinksloth]

Unplug the second hard drive and redo a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

I run disk management, and have the following informations:

1st physical drive (installed windows 7)
- System Reserved, Healthy(System, Active, Primary Partition)
- C:, Healthy(Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

2nd physical drive (bootmgr file located)
- D:, Healthy(Active, Primary Partition)

or actually winodws 7 store boot information from the "hidden drive" "System Reserved"?

thanks for reply.

 

[VistaKing]

The 2nd hard drive which is ( D:\ ) is there anything inside besides the boot files ? If its just the boot files we could format the D:\ drive then either move over the boot files from System Reserved partition which is hidden . We would have to unhide it first then give it a letter .

 

[Thinksloth]

The 2nd hard drive which is ( D:\ ) is there anything inside besides the boot files ? If its just the boot files we could format the D:\ drive then either move over the boot files from System Reserved partition which is hidden . We would have to unhide it first then give it a letter .

The D:\ is used to store my back files. Besides bootmgr, it also have a file "BOOTSECT.BAK" and a folder "Boot"


And i "msconfig" -> boot, it shows:

Windows 7 (C:\Windows): Current OS; Default OS

is that mean boot file is inside C:\?

 

[VistaKing]

Your C drive is your boot drive but its not set to active .

 

[Thinksloth]

Your C drive is your boot drive but its not set to active .

In Disk Management, can I right click in C:\, right click "Mark Partition as Active", then the problem solved?

 

[AddRAM]

Post a shot of disk management.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

And D has to be marked inactive. Do you have a windows 7 install disc or have you made a startup repair disc, you may need it.

 

[Thinksloth]

post a shot of disk management.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

and d has to be marked inactive. Do you have a windows 7 install disc or have you made a startup repair disc, you may need it.

For convenient reason i just say C: and D:, the "bootmgr" is located at F:\

 

[AddRAM]

Mark F inactive.

How in the... did it get marked active ???:huh:

You can`t throw the wrong letters around for convenience.

Mark F inactive, unplug disk 1 and 2 then boot the machine. It should boot to windows, if it doesn`t, run startup repair.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html

 

[Thinksloth]

Mark F inactive.

How in the... did it get marked active ???:huh:

You can`t throw the wrong letters around for convenience.

sorry for inconvenient.

but if i mark F:\ inactive and mark C:\ active, will the "bootmgr" move to c:\?

 

[AddRAM]

You shouldn`t have to mark C active as you already have a system reserved partition on that hard drive.

I ask again, do you have a Windows 7 disc or a startup repair disc ?

Vistaking told you exactly what to do in his 1st reply.

Mark F inactive, unplug disk 1 and 2 then boot the machine. It should boot to windows, if it doesn`t, run startup repair.

System Repair Disc - Create

 

[VistaKing]

You could do this

. Click rb:
2. In search box, type cmd
3. Right-click on cmd.exe, and choose 'Run as Administrator'

In the elevated command prompt type in the following commands:-

Diskpart
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the HDD in question)
LIST PARTITION
SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the Partition that holds F )
INACTIVE




　IF you want to move the bootmgr to C:\ try this

Click on rb: type in CMD then right click on CMD and click on run as administrator click on yes on the UAC window

reg unload HKLM\BCD00000000

robocopy x:\ c:\ bootmgr

x:\ is the letter that you assigned to system reserved partition

robocopy x:\Boot C:\Boot /s

dir c:\ /ah
( this just to check to see If the files got copied over to the C:\ drive )

bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:

bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {memdiag} device partition=C:

 

[Thinksloth]

You shouldn`t have to mark C active as you already have a system reserved partition on that hard drive.

I ask again, do you have a Windows 7 disc or a startup repair disc ?

Vistaking told you exactly what to do in his 1st reply.

i have a windows 7 installation usb

 

[AddRAM]

I`ve never used a usb drive to run startup repair, never had to, but I would think it would work just the same.

If you have a blank cd, you should make a system ( startup ) repair disc. ( for the future )

System Repair Disc - Create

 

[Thinksloth]

You could do this

. Click rb:
2. In search box, type cmd
3. Right-click on cmd.exe, and choose 'Run as Administrator'

In the elevated command prompt type in the following commands:-

Diskpart
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the HDD in question)
LIST PARTITION
SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the Partition that holds F )
INACTIVE




　IF you want to move the bootmgr to C:\ try this

Click on rb : type in CMD then right click on CMD and click on run as administrator click on yes on the UAC window

reg unload HKLM\BCD00000000

robocopy x:\ c:\ bootmgr

x:\ is the letter that you assigned to system reserved partition

robocopy x:\Boot C:\Boot /s

dir c:\ /ah
( this just to check to see If the files got copied over to the C:\ drive )

bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:

bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {memdiag} device partition=C:

May i ask what the worst case scenario if i do sth wrong and my F:\ not plug to the computer?

 

[AddRAM]

Windows would not boot.

You have a system reserved partition marked active already, if you unplug F, windows SHOULD boot.

 

[Thinksloth]

Windows would not boot.

You have a system reserved partition marked active already, if you unplug F, windows SHOULD boot.

Out of curiosity, why i install windows 7 in C:\, but windows put the bootmgr in F:\, and

is that system reserved partition also have the bootmgr file?

 

[VistaKing]

You shouldn`t have to mark C active as you already have a system reserved partition on that hard drive.

I ask again, do you have a Windows 7 disc or a startup repair disc ?

Vistaking told you exactly what to do in his 1st reply.

i have a windows 7 installation usb

It works the same way a DVD would . Don't click on Install choose Repair your computer on the bottom left

 

[AddRAM]

Who knows and Yes.

If you didn`t have the other drives plugged in when you installed windows, you would not have this problem.