Change boot drive

Solarion

Solarion

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Hi all, I need to please pick your brain a bit.

I had a 2TB h/drive which has two partitions. The first partition is 80gig [C:\] and second is 1.9TB [D:\]

When I first got the machine, Windows was installed on the 80gig partition and the 1.9TB was for movies/music etc.

At some point I installed Windows on the second partition, the D:\ drive. What happened was D suddenly renamed to C and C to D.

So now my main boot partition is the one with all my movies etc. This offends me greatly and I would like to reverse this problem.

What do I do?
 
Could I just set the boot drive in Dos and change the driver letters accordingly in Windows?
 
Have you tried the below, where you change the default OS that boots up? Of course it means you'll be booting into your originally installed windows on the 80Gib partition. Not sure why you abandoned it was it corrupt or something?2015_05_28_12_45_11_System.jpg
 
Set your default: start>run>msconfig>boot...

Set the old windows install currently on your D drive as your default and delete the windows install currently on your C drive...

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Johnatan56 said:
I think you are deleting the wrong OS.
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Yeah, was as an example of what to expect the boot options in msconfig to look like. OP take care to delete the right one...

Your C drive is currently default. Change that to D drive and delete C... Save and reboot and all things being equal your machine will boot to your old Windows install and auto rename the D drive to C with your 2tb back to D and Windows Boot ini free...
 
If you unsure and have teamviewer installed I can log into your machine and check it out...?

It's a fairly simple process though. However, under certain circumstances has the potential to go horribly wrong...
 
I don't have internet at home yet else I would gladly let someone sort it out for me.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, will print this off and try it at home.

@kianm - I had some problems with the PC some weeks back, and in a hurry I re-installed Windows but didn't realise I was installing it onto the wrong drive [D:\]

I'll let you know how it goes guys, thanks a million.

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Refraction said:
If it is windows partition how can it be :)
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I honestly have no idea. I'm able to f@ck up a computer better than most people, with very little effort at all.

Edit: I'll try using the original Win7 Disk tonight, do a repair and take it from there.
 
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PsYTraNc3 said:
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Or just change boot drive in your BIOS?
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Thing is it's a partition on the same disk, so the only options I have are the DVD Rom or the Hard Drive itself. Something got fked up badly with the active bootable partitions as it refuses to boot from either C or D now. I'll try a Windows recovery later.
 
Guys I came right thanks for the help, much appreciated.

I used my original Win7 disk and I then reinstalled Windows on the C:\ to make sure all was fine. Loaded into windows fine after that however the main boot was still the D:\ so I changed it to C like you guys showed. After that everyone is fine, haven't lost a thing.
 
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