I've got a PC that has two partitions (C & D) on the drive. My previous XP installation needed to be wiped so moved some of my documents onto D, booted from a Vista DVD, formatted C, and then installed Vista.
Now that I've done that I think I need more room on C and wanted to delete D and extend C. The problem is that D is marked as "Active" and because apparently the bootmgr is located on that partition. Is there a safe way to get bootmgr to C without doing a complete wipe and reinstall?
After some searching the web I've seen where some people have said to boot off the Windows CD, delete the partition with bootmgr, and then run a repair on the Windows install. But then I've also seen where some people tried that and then came back to say their PCs won't boot after doing that and they had to do a reinstall anyway. So it that truly the best way?
Thanks!
Now that I've done that I think I need more room on C and wanted to delete D and extend C. The problem is that D is marked as "Active" and because apparently the bootmgr is located on that partition. Is there a safe way to get bootmgr to C without doing a complete wipe and reinstall?
After some searching the web I've seen where some people have said to boot off the Windows CD, delete the partition with bootmgr, and then run a repair on the Windows install. But then I've also seen where some people tried that and then came back to say their PCs won't boot after doing that and they had to do a reinstall anyway. So it that truly the best way?
Thanks!
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