Changing Boot Drive....

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nuwan

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OMG I NEED HELP...!!!
My Laptop has 2 drives. The C and the Recovery Partitoin which is E or sumthin. I partitoined the C and made the partition G. And like a Jackass I changed the label of G and C, not the letter, only the label. (instead of Windows C:/ i changed it to "EXAMPLE" C:/)
It worked fine till i restarted my computer..
It says bootmgr is missing. So i ran Recovery and I was backing everything up wen I found the problem. The C drive which had all my system files is no longer C, It shows as D. So there is no C, only D and the empty Partition G.
I thought I cud choose to boot from D but I went to boot menu and all i can select is Hard Disk or CD Rom. Wen I select hard disk it boots from the recovery partition and opens HP Recovery.
How can I select which DRIVE to Boot from??

OH I FORGOT... AFTER I PARTIONED C, I MADE THE NEW PARTTION G AND I MADE IT AND "ACTIVE DRIVE". I THINK THAT DID SUMTHIN TOO..
 
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nuwan said:
OMG I NEED HELP...!!!
My Laptop has 2 drives. The C and the Recovery Partitoin which is E or sumthin. I partitoined the C and made the partition G. And like a Jackass I changed the label of G and C, not the letter, only the label. (instead of Windows C:/ i changed it to "EXAMPLE" C:/)
It worked fine till i restarted my computer..
It says bootmgr is missing. So i ran Recovery and I was backing everything up wen I found the problem. The C drive which had all my system files is no longer C, It shows as D. So there is no C, only D and the empty Partition G.
I thought I cud choose to boot from D but I went to boot menu and all i can select is Hard Disk or CD Rom. Wen I select hard disk it boots from the recovery partition and opens HP Recovery.
How can I select which DRIVE to Boot from??

OH I FORGOT... AFTER I PARTIONED C, I MADE THE NEW PARTTION G AND I MADE IT AND "ACTIVE DRIVE". I THINK THAT DID SUMTHIN TOO..
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Hello nuwan;

Can you help clear up some things for me? You said your laptop has two drives? Do you mean two hard drives or two partitions on one hard drive?

In an earlier thread you were asking how to add XP to your laptop and dual boot XP and Vista, so did you get XP installed? Where is Vista now? What partition? What letter?

You might be able to get back to booting to windows if you can mark the partition with the boot code (Vista?) as active. It would help a lot if you had a third party partitioning utility to use. If you do not have one, the free Partition Wizard is very popular here at the forums. Download the iso and burn it to a CD (make sure you are making the burn bootable). You can then boot to the CD and use the utility to mark the Vista partition active (or the partition with the boot code).

Cheers!
Robert
 

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okay. err can you explain better what drives/letters/partitions/labels got changed/mssed up?

and

this is not mandatory but it can prevent some pesky problems:

when you dual boot win vista and xp you want to try to install the earlier os first, then the later ones, and always isntall linux last.
 

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