Moving Win 7 to another drive

M

Mark

Currently I'm dual booting Vista and 7. Vista is on drive C and 7 is on
drive D. I have an Acronis image of 7. What I'd like to do is format D and
install the Acronis image on C overwriting Vista. From what I've read,
because I installed 7 after Vista, Vista holds the boot instructions. Is
there a way I can do this without having to do a fresh install of 7?
 
G

Gordon

Mark said:
Currently I'm dual booting Vista and 7. Vista is on drive C and 7 is on
drive D. I have an Acronis image of 7. What I'd like to do is format D
and install the Acronis image on C overwriting Vista. From what I've
read, because I installed 7 after Vista, Vista holds the boot
instructions. Is there a way I can do this without having to do a fresh
install of 7?
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You could boot from the 7 DVD and do a startup repair...
 
M

Mark

Gordon said:
You could boot from the 7 DVD and do a startup repair...
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....and that would take care of the boot problem? Could I also use the
startup/repair disk?
 
C

Conor

...and that would take care of the boot problem? Could I also use the
startup/repair disk?
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The only other problem would be that you end up with the entire disk as
drive letter D: or nothing working if its assigned C: because all
registry entries would be referring to D:
 
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