eerikk
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I installed windows 7 on a temporary drive (20gb) wich in the bios is primary drive. I then booted from that and installed windows 7 again on the slave drive (120gb). I did this because the the 120 gb was un available at the time and i wanted to see if the disk worked before wiping my 120 gb hard drive. so i have two drives in my computer and in windows the master drive is labeled "Z:" and the slave is "C:". the problem i am having is when i remove the "Z:" drive, aka master, windows 7 cannot boot because the boot files are located on the "Z:" drive. i want to take the 20 gb drive out. is there any way i can do this without having to reinstall windows 7 and all my software.
PS. my computer will not boot from the windows 7 cd.
PS. my computer will not boot from the windows 7 cd.
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Mine could never boot the W7 disk either. I used to dual boot Ubuntu with XP and the Grub boot loader messed it up. I was able to start the installation in Windows. Then when it restarted during the installation it worked right.
Yes, as long as the 7 drive you want to keep is a Primary partition.
Boot into the one you want to keep.
Unzip this and put the bootsect.exe file in Windows\system32 folder.
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Open an elevated command prompt - ( I have used the letter c here - you MUST use the letter of the 7 drive you want to keep as seen when you are booted into it)
bootsect.exe /nt60 c: /mbr
then press enter
bcdboot c:\windows /s c:
then press enter.
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot
then press enter
In disk management, rt click the 7 partition you are keeping and Mark as Active ( if it isn't already).
Shutdown , remove the other drive.
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