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I originally dual booted Vista and Win7. Win7 was installed on a separate physical drive and now I want to get rid of the drive that originally had Vista installed. The problem is, apparently the boot table is on that drive and I can't get the machine to recognize the Win7 install and can't get the necessary boot files on the new drive. If I disconnect the old drive that had Vista on it, this is the message I get. I tried using a bootable flash drive, but if the old drive is not connected, it does not see the windows 7 installation in the repair options screen. The automatic repair does not work.
I thought I could possibly manually copy and edit the right file, but the strange thing is I can't find the boot files on the old drive. I have the option to show all system and hidden files selected, but I can's see any files on the old drive at all in explorer, although I can if I use the c: prompt. One other thing, in Disk management, the correct partition containing Win7 is shown as "boot."
EDIT: I've now managed to copy "bootmgr" to the correct drive. Is there something I need to do with it? And where does it need to go?
Thoughts? Ideas? Feelings?
Thanks
I thought I could possibly manually copy and edit the right file, but the strange thing is I can't find the boot files on the old drive. I have the option to show all system and hidden files selected, but I can's see any files on the old drive at all in explorer, although I can if I use the c: prompt. One other thing, in Disk management, the correct partition containing Win7 is shown as "boot."
EDIT: I've now managed to copy "bootmgr" to the correct drive. Is there something I need to do with it? And where does it need to go?
Thoughts? Ideas? Feelings?
Thanks
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