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removing VISTA (c:\) with win7 (J:\) - how???

 
 
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      09-08-2009
danperteet - these are SATA drives not IDE. IDE are the ones with the Master and Slave jumpers.

He could do as you suggest by booting to the other drive from the Bios Boot Selection. The only problem are the Boot files that where placed on the first drive. The second drive does not have these files. Even if you made changes in the Master Boot Record on the second drive Windows 7 will still not boot without making corrections to Windows Boot Files.
 
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      09-08-2009
In a program called testdisk, which is on ubcd, you can create a new master boot record on another drive. It really saved my butt one time.
 
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      09-08-2009
This can be done with EasyBCD (freeware) within Windows 7, my Windows 7 is 1st partition Drive G but in Windows 7 EasyBCD see it as C:\



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Am I missing something here

The EasyBCD will save and write the Master Boot Record and Edit the BootLoader. But what needs to be done is copying or moving the Bootloader from C: to J: so that the vista drive can be disconnected. This is what I don't see being done within EasyBCD.

With EasyBCD in the Diagnostic Center. If you select the "Recreate missing/deleted boot files" and then click "Rescue My System".
Will selecting J: do what he is trying to accomplish?
 
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I believe so Clifford I have not done exactly that, but my wife did manage to loose the dual boot on her Computer (lost Windows 7 boot) and EasyBCD recreated the Boot and you can uninstall the boot for the OS.
 
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