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[fleamour]

I have Windows 7 installed across two disks, alongside XP. The primary SATA is XP (80GB) & secondary 7. However 7 seems to have it bootloader installed on the first disk (XP) & I want to remove & replace with an SSD.

I need to have the 7 volume boot under it's own steam before cloning.

I tried disconnecting the 80GB XP volume & running the three boot.rec commands. However /fixboot returns error & will not rebuild. Within disk management there is no boot volume on either disk.

If 7 is dependant on two disks being present, then it is twice as likely to keel over? What am I missing? Do I have to fresh install? Would EasyBCD work where install disk failed?

 

[gregrocker]

Try http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/209885-bootmgr-move-c-easybcd.html.

C must be marked Active first in Disk Mgmt. After moving confirm C is System Active and then set it first HD to boot in BIOS setup.

If 7 then boots you can boot XP using one time BIOS Boot Menu key or mark Inactive to delete in Disk Mgmt. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197157-partition-mark-inactive.html