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Does anyone know EasyBCD well? I'm wondering about using one of it's functions but nervous about messing up the system worse than it is.
 

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What is it exactly that you are wanting to do? Maybe we can give quick answer :)
 

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RolandJS said:
What is it exactly that you are wanting to do? Maybe we can give quick answer :)
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It looks like on the advanced section you can set which drive the bootloader reads the OS from but I'm not sure. My system bootloader files are on my GPT H drive which it boots from in UEFI but it reads the OS boot files from the MBR C: drive.
The advanced section in EasyBCD shows it points to the C: drive for my Win7 and I'm wondering if I can change it to point to the H: drive. The OS is on both drives. If I changed it and it didn't work I'm afraid it would be unbootable and I wouldn't be able to change it back.
 

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Post a screenshot of the disk management window.
 

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On disk 2 you have a 228M partition without a letter assigned to it. What do you have on that partition?

To make a EFI partition on disk 2
- Shrink the 228M partition or on the C: partition by 60M.
- On the 60M unallocated partition, create a FAT32 partition and assign a W: letter to it.

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
bcdboot C:\Windows /s W: /f UEFI

Shutdown, disconnect (SATA or power cable) disks 0, 1, & 3.
On BIOS change the boot priority to Windows boot manager from disk 0 to disk 2,
Power on and it should boot from drive 2

If it does, shutdown, reconnect (SATA or power cable) disks 0, 1, & 3.


Back to windows, delete the EFI partition on disk 0
 
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System One System Two

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    Windows 7 HP 64
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    i5 6600K - 800MHz to 4200MHz
    Motherboard
    GA-Z170-HD3P
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    4+4G GSkill DDR4 3000
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    IG - Intel 530
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    Samsung 226BW
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    (1) -1 SM951 – 128GB M.2 AHCI PCIe SSD drive for Windows 7 and Lubuntu
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    Thermaltake 450W TR2 gold
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    Old and good Chicony mechanical keyboard
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    Logitech mX performance - 9 buttons (had to disable some)
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    Windows 7 Pro
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    500 Mb/s
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    Firefox
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Megahertz07 said:
On disk 2 you have a 228M partition without a letter assigned to it. What do you have on that partition?
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Nothing? That was there before I even started. I think that's an MS reserved partition or something.


The rest of your instruction it looks like it will boot from disk 2 C drive afterwards. I want it to only boot from Disk 0 H drive. When it does I'm going to remove disk 2 C drive. Once everything's done I want to change that H: to C:
 

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Now it is booting from EFI partition on disk 0 and transferring the boot sequence to disk 2 - C:
The drive letter is assigned by the OS. If you boot from disk 0, H: will become C:

Does disk 0 - H: has a OS on it?
 
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My Computers

System One System Two

  • Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
    custom build
    OS
    Windows 7 HP 64
    CPU
    i5 6600K - 800MHz to 4200MHz
    Motherboard
    GA-Z170-HD3P
    Memory
    4+4G GSkill DDR4 3000
    Graphics Card(s)
    IG - Intel 530
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 226BW
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    (1) -1 SM951 – 128GB M.2 AHCI PCIe SSD drive for Windows 7 and Lubuntu
    (2) -1 WD SATA 3 - 1T for Data
    (3) -1 WD SATA 3 - 1T for backup
    PSU
    Thermaltake 450W TR2 gold
    Keyboard
    Old and good Chicony mechanical keyboard
    Mouse
    Logitech mX performance - 9 buttons (had to disable some)
    Internet Speed
    500Mb/s
    Browser
    Firefox 64
    Other Info
    TinyWall firewall
  • Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model Number
    Asus Q550LF
    OS
    Windows 7 Pro
    CPU
    i7-4500U 800MHz to 3.0GHz
    Motherboard
    Asus Q550LF
    Memory
    (4+4)G DDR3 1600
    Graphics Card(s)
    IG intel 4400 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M
    Sound Card
    Realtek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG Display LP156WF4-SPH1
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    BX500 120G SSD for Windows and programs +
    1T HDD for data
    Internet Speed
    500 Mb/s
    Browser
    Firefox
    Other Info
    TinyWall firewall
This is a follow-up to Moving Win 7 to new drive

His issue is that the OS on D0P3 has no boot entry. I have suggested to execute

bcdboot H:\Windows

to create a dual boot of old and new Windows, thus not taking any boot option away immediately.

The boot files are on Drive 0 already.
 

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