Swapping Partitions
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From: Brian K on 1 Feb 2010 18:54 Everything OK?
From: Brian K on 2 Feb 2010 00:01 MJMIII, I know you are busy and will be awake when I'm asleep so when you have successfully separated the two OS and they are booting independently, here are the final instructions. Now it's time to put Win7 on HD 0. The following method is easier and faster than imaging Win7 with Acronis TI and restoring the image to HD 0 In Partition Work, select HD 1 select Windows 7 - 1 click Copy on the right side select HD 0 select your 450 GB Free Space click Paste on the right side call it something like Win7_new (your choice) click OK wait for the copy to complete Resize Win7_new to fill the Free Space Click Boot Edit, Add, for Identity call it Win7_new, HD 0, use the drop down arrow to select your Win7_new, choose an icon if you want No tick in Swap as it is HD 0 On the right side in the MBR Details section, select Vista - 1 and click Hide. On the right side in the MBR Details section, select Windows 7 - 1 (on HD 1) and click Hide. Click OK. OK. In Boot Edit, select your Vista, Edit, Hide both Win7. OK. OK. In Partition Work, select your Win7_new and run a BCD Edit to reference HD 0 http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=318 Close Partition Work Click Resume Boot into Win7_new from the Boot Menu Let me know if the Hiding doesn't work. It may not as the OS have already seen each other. We can fix it another way.
From: MJMIII on 2 Feb 2010 06:40 Sorry for the delay, Brian. You're absolutely correct. I've been busy. I printed out the 4 pages of instructions and briefly went over them. I may need to go over them a few more times before I digest them. I use this computer for work, so I want to be sure I have all my "I's" dotted and "T's" crossed before I start this. I'll, <hopefully>, get back to you when I'm finished. Thanks again. Mike -- "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:mkO9n.5091$pv.2067(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > MJMIII, > > I know you are busy and will be awake when I'm asleep so when you have > successfully separated the two OS and they are booting independently, here > are the final instructions. > > > Now it's time to put Win7 on HD 0. The following method is easier and > faster than imaging Win7 with Acronis TI and restoring the image to HD 0 > > In Partition Work, select HD 1 > select Windows 7 - 1 > click Copy on the right side > select HD 0 > select your 450 GB Free Space > click Paste on the right side > call it something like Win7_new (your choice) > click OK > wait for the copy to complete > Resize Win7_new to fill the Free Space > > Click Boot Edit, Add, for Identity call it Win7_new, HD 0, use > the drop down arrow to select your Win7_new, choose an icon if you want > No tick in Swap as it is HD 0 > On the right side in the MBR Details section, select Vista - 1 and click > Hide. > On the right side in the MBR Details section, select Windows 7 - 1 (on HD > 1) and click Hide. > Click OK. OK. > > In Boot Edit, select your Vista, Edit, Hide both Win7. OK. OK. > > In Partition Work, select your Win7_new and run a BCD Edit to reference HD > 0 > http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=318 > Close Partition Work > Click Resume > Boot into Win7_new from the Boot Menu > > Let me know if the Hiding doesn't work. It may not as the OS have already > seen each other. We can fix it another way. > > >
From: Brian K on 2 Feb 2010 13:51 Mike, understood.
From: Brian K on 5 Feb 2010 04:56
I just did this for a mate. He had two Win7 on the same HD that he wanted separated. Easy. It only took a few minutes. |