Move Boot partition.

[Deders]

What is the best way to move the 100MB boot partition for a windows 7 install to a different drive? Would Acronis do the trick without too many issues?

 

[John Connor]

Why on earth would you want to do that? 😵

 

[Deders]

My brother has a faulty SSD, OCZ has asked him to flash it and do a secure erase.

We've already installed a temporary windows 7 on to his other drive but if we wipe the SSD it won't boot, because the boot partition will be gone.

He doesn't really have the time to do too many installs an I'd have to guide him through each one over instant messenger.

 

[TheELF]

Just create a new one,since you can get into windows run easybcd, find the free comunity version so you don't have to signup with them, go to bcd deployment select the new drive with the temporary win7 and press install bcd.
It will ask you if you want to edit this new bcd, do that by selecting add new entry the default is for win 7/8/10 so just tell the program which drive letter the temporary win7 coresponds to.

 

[John Connor]

Oh, I see. The dreaded bootloader mapped to the other HDD problem. Give this a try: http://www.boyans.net/MoveWindows7BootFilesToAnotherDrive.html

http://www.boyans.net/

Also, check into Teamviewer that way you can do this remotely.

 

[Deders]

Thanks, will look at both methods, was thinking teamviewer. We tried it before but his internet connection was too choppy at the time.

 

[John Connor]

but his internet connection was too choppy at the time.

I use teamviewer with my aunt's computer from Coloardo to North Dakota and she lives in a no name town out in the middle of fields! The best Internet they have is slow 6 MbPS DSL. So perhaps he has crap running in the background? Make sure nothing is running during that session.

 

[Deders]

I use teamviewer with my aunt's computer from Coloardo to North Dakota and she lives in a no name town out in the middle of fields! The best Internet they have is slow 6 MbPS DSL. So perhaps he has crap running in the background? Make sure nothing is running during that session.

It's something to do with his connection, we've checked for background programs and asked every one else in the house to do the same. No downloading at all but it still drops below half a Mb/s and cuts out. Gaming with him has proven impossible in the past.

Thankfully it seems to be much better today. Teamviewer is working fine and we've fixed the issue.

Now to decide if it's worth sending the SSD back due to it still being at 92% health after only 1000GB of writes.