Solved Uninstall Vista (Native OS), but leave Windows 7 (Secondary OS)

[theog]

Yes,work-around, if OP's, can not change the BIOS boot order or change the HD's round.

 

[cdmoomaw]

I have gotten it to work, but not the way I expected. I marked the Win7 partition as active, and the Vista partition as inactive, but when I went to recovery, it STILL wrote the files back to Vista (apparently recognizing the boot files on the drive). After about 5 attempts, I got it to work by doing the following:

- Boot Win7
- Mark Win7 Partition as active
- Mark Vista Partition as Inactive
- Shut Down
- Open hard drive access door
- Swap hard drives (putting Win7 in SATA 0, Vista in SATA 1)
- Close door
- Boot to Recovery disc
- Open command prompt
- Verify that Win7 is drive C:
- Run Startup Recovery
- View Detailed Report to Verify That it completed successfully
- Run again if not successful
- Boot to Win7
- Delete Vista Partition
- Repartition Drive

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

That's the method I posted in my #7 reply, well done and thanks for the update.


Now have a look at Method One of this tutorial for additional storage options.

Partition / Extended : Logical Drives

 

[cdmoomaw]

Indeed it is. I really didn't want to get in there and do that, but sometimes there's just no other way to go about it.

All's well that ends well.

Best wishes,
~ CDMoomaw​

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

All's well that ends well.

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[cdmoomaw]

I have attached a picture of my disk layout now. (The new partition is mounted in my "%UserProfile%" folder as opposed to using a drive letter.)

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Now have a look at Method One of this tutorial for additional storage options.

Partition / Extended : Logical Drives

Did you have a look at the possibilities this offers?

 

[cdmoomaw]

I believe that in my situation, it would be easier just to create subfolders. But thank you anyway.

 

[gregrocker]

Good work.

An option with a laptop where drives aren't as accessible would be to disable DISK0 in the BIOS during Repairs. It was going to be my next suggestion but you were dexterous enough to swap drives per BFK's original instructions.

With respect to the simulation, having the Repair create SysReserved on a cleaned non-Active HD seems strange but this could explain why lone SysReserved's sometimes end up on preceding HD's after install. It would be good to see real world examples.

 

[cdmoomaw]

Actually, I tried to use BIOS, but mine isn't that in-depth. It, rather than giving options on individual drives, simply refers to them in boot settings as "Notebook HDDs".