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| Thread ID: 121301 | 2011-10-19 21:16:00 | Help needed to remove old XP HHD. | Bryan (147) | Press F1 |
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| 1238673 | 2011-10-19 23:18:00 | Easy BCD has an option somewhere to change the boot device, it works very well. The problem is currently the boot files are residing on your old C: drive which is what repair tries to fix, but it can be a little tricky and take several attempts and is best done after removing the old drive as it can confuse things. Hunt around in Easy BCD ( I can't do it from work or I would tell you ), find the option, change the boot device, shut down, disconnect old drive, reboot. Should be back in business. It may recreate the old boot menu but you can edit that from Easy BCD afterwards to remove XP if it still lists it. Easy BCD copies all the required boot files, sets the drive active, and rebuilds the menu. Worked for me when I got rid of dual boot with 2 seperate drives which is what you are doing. Was hugely easier than all the other suggestions I had from here from all the helpful people. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1238674 | 2011-10-19 23:26:00 | went back and found my old thread . pcworld . co . nz/showthread . php?113888-Removing-a-Dual-boot-system/page2" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz what worked in the end was this: what eventually worked: Boot into WIN 7 ( wont work from XP I tried ) run easy BCD Go to BCD backup/repair tick change boot drive (!) select the drive you want to boot from have used this program for a while now, somehow I missed this option . It does recreate the boot menu as well so you still have to edit out any unwanted entries afterwards, but no big deal . |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1238675 | 2011-10-20 01:57:00 | Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I bit the bullet and reinstalled. This time the installation has gone well and is in C: I can't for the life of me figure out how the first installation went so wrong. Again, thanks for all the advice. |
Bryan (147) | ||
| 1238676 | 2011-10-20 02:08:00 | What can go wrong is if you have another drive that has an OS on it, in this case XP, drive letter C will already be taken, so it installs to the next available letter. If you have a Card reader installed, that can also through a spanner in the works and one of the card reader slots can take C and windows then installs on another drive letter.(been caught out a few times with that). Windows doesn't always take C as the drive letter. Just a bit of info -- when installing Windows 7 and you have the smaller boot partition, that is actually infact drive C, and windows installs on Drive D, BUT because of the way its named, windows sees it's installed drive as C. :) If you are installing windows Via a WIM file, thats when you have to make the partitions first either manually or Via a answer file, and the small partition is Labeled C. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1238677 | 2011-10-20 02:26:00 | Edit to above, seems they have changed things around a little for the WIM file instructions regarding drive letters, it now works better. Although having a card reader installed and plugged in can still cause drive letter problems. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1238678 | 2011-10-20 02:27:00 | Edit to above, seems they have changed things around a little for the WIM file instructions regarding drive letters, it now works better. Although having a card reader installed and plugged in can still cause drive letter problems. |
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