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From: MJMIII on 5 Feb 2010 09:42 This weekend looks like a perfect time for me to do this. We're getting between 12 and 18 inches of snow in the next 30 hours so I'm picking this as the lesser of 2 evils to do. The other being shoveling. Lemme get this straight. First, I'll be giving Win 7 its own boot file, then I'll be creating a Win 7 entry in Bootit. After I'm finished working with Partitions and Boot Entries, I'll be copying and pasting Win 7 to where I want it. Tell you what. It's gonna take me longer than a few minutes. Thankfully, I tested both Acronis images and both were successful. The next time you hear from me it will hopefully be from this machine and not my laptop. :-) -- "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:aXRan.5736$pv.1531(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > 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. >
From: Brian K on 5 Feb 2010 14:06 "MJMIII" <balrog(a)castaway.net> wrote in message news:eumdnaMQxqjEs_HWnZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > This weekend looks like a perfect time for me to do this. We're getting > between 12 and 18 inches of snow in the next 30 hours so I'm picking this > as the lesser of 2 evils to do. The other being shoveling. > > Lemme get this straight. First, I'll be giving Win 7 its own boot file, > then I'll be creating a Win 7 entry in Bootit. After I'm finished working > with Partitions and Boot Entries, I'll be copying and pasting Win 7 to > where I want it. > > Tell you what. It's gonna take me longer than a few minutes. Thankfully, > I tested both Acronis images and both were successful. The next time you > hear from me it will hopefully be from this machine and not my laptop. > :-) > Mike, that snow sounds good. It's about 30� C here most days. It only took me a few minutes because I didn't have to do the copy/paste step. Yes, you have got the steps correct but you have to do another BCD Edit after Win7 has been moved to HD0. (change HD1 to HD0 in a couple of places) I found doing the BCD Edits a little confusing as there were twice as many entries as I'm use to seeing. Entries for both OS. But focus and only do what TeraByte suggest. Ignore the remaining entries. My mate's Microsoft boot menu was confusing and it took me a minute or so to work out what it meant. Windows7 was his second OS and Windows7 Recovered was his first. When I booted into the OSs it became obvious. Yours are labelled Vista and Win7 so it shouldn't be confusing.
From: Brian K on 5 Feb 2010 18:22 You don't have to do this. I deliberately mangled one Win7 BCD store to see if I could recover. The OS wouldn't boot. I unlimited primaries in BING and removed the other OS from the Boot Edit. (Just hiding the other OS is not enough). The other OS is still there but it is just not in the MBR at that time. With a WinPE boot disk, delete the Boot folder and bootmgr from the OS partition. Now there are no booting files. Boot from a Win7 disk and do 2 repairs. On the second repair you will do a Startup Repair. Set BING to limit primaries again. All fixed. It demonstrates that you can recover from a NO booting files situation.
From: Brian K on 5 Feb 2010 18:30 I forgot to mention. That was on my test computer, not my mate's good computer.
From: Brian K on 14 Feb 2010 16:08
Hi Mike, any news? Apart from the snow. |