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Hi, The upgrade discs are bootable. It must be something to do with your system. Do you get "press any key to boot from cdrom" If you get that - the dvd is bootable. It might not load - because of the win 7 ahci.sys A common workaround is to boot into another pe - e.g. vista - then put...

If it bothers you, open an admin cmd and type: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu No

This is an area of interest for me. I normally use Paragon HDM Server Edition. At $500 it's a little outside most people's area. They do very good Personal and Pro editions - obviously , they cost less. There are several free ones. Tho I am a fan of Paragon products - they do the best paid...

Hi, As cybercore points out, Windows Disk Management won't be able to do that without deleting the large partition first. You presumably don't want to do that. You need a 3rd party partition manager. The FREE PW supports 64 bit o/s , d/l the free Bootable CD as well.

Lol. I thought you had done it days ago. Now you need to do this: If you can't boot in , boot the 7 dvd/repair disc, go to command prompt, type : Diskpart (then press enter ) lis vol (then press enter ) (find the drive letter for your Morgoth partition - it is not necessarily...

I meant the default setting .The one that says : Smaller default (100%)

It's the answer to your question: You will boot directly into win7 , which is what you asked for. If you prefer to think it will make the world come to an end - that's fine.... LOL.

Yes, that's it. As you can boot in fine , type cmd in start search box, when the black box pops up, rt click and select Run As Admin. At the prompt ( this bit > ) type: Diskpart (then press enter) sel vol c (then press enter) act (then press enter) sel vol d (then press...

More like this David,

Disk Management showing five NTFS partitions with various sizes and health statuses.

Screenshot of Disk Management would be great if possible - taken from within win7. Type the word "create" in start search box. Click "create and format hard disk partitions" You can see if the win 7 partition is active there. If not , rt click it and mark it active. Take a screenie and...

Great - glad you sorted it out.

Saltgrass earlier post had it. If the win 7 HD is the first HD in bios boot order , AND the win 7 partition is marked as active - startup repair should fix it.

Yes, a clean reinstall would fix it. Boot the 7 dvd , choose custom install and follow the prompts. If you want everything saved into a windows.old folder , don't format the partition , just select it and click next

In Disk Management, Rt click the Windows 7 partition and mark it active. Boot the win 7 dvd /repair cd and run startup repair 3 times. Restart back into 7 - you will be able to make the backup image now.