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Old 03-11-2007   #1 (permalink)
Rich


 
 

How to make system boot drive (removing dualboot setup)

Scenario:
Didn't know if Vista would work well. So simply added another drive to my
WinXp machine. Installed Vista on this drive so I could dual boot either to
WinXP or Vista.

Works fine, can boot to XP or Vista.

Now, I have decided that Vista supports the applications I like and has the
drivers for the hardware I have on the machine.

I want to remove the WinXP drive and boot from the Vista drive.

-
Drive Details:

From the Windows Disk Management utility, drives read as follows:
Disk 0 Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
Disk 1 Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Primary Partition)
Disk 2 Healthy (Primary Partition)

-
Disk 0 is the original boot disk with with WinXP system on it
Disk 1 is the Vista system
Disk 2 is my raid setup for storing WinMedia stuff

Question: Is there a way, without a full reinstall of Vista, to remove Disk
0 and make the Disk 1 a reckognized bootable drive for Vista (aka the system
drive)? If so, any recommendations would be appreciated.

- Rich

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 03-11-2007   #2 (permalink)
John Barnes


 
 

Re: How to make system boot drive (removing dualboot setup)

You can make disk 1 the first in boot priority, disconnect the disk 0. Boot
from the Vista disk and do a startup repair. You didn't say if these are
IDE or SATA, but on some systems there is a problem with getting the boot on
SATA if there is an IDE drive attached.

"Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8457E3F3-8F51-4922-AB26-46D362A2D243@microsoft.com...
> Scenario:
> Didn't know if Vista would work well. So simply added another drive to my
> WinXp machine. Installed Vista on this drive so I could dual boot either
> to
> WinXP or Vista.
>
> Works fine, can boot to XP or Vista.
>
> Now, I have decided that Vista supports the applications I like and has
> the
> drivers for the hardware I have on the machine.
>
> I want to remove the WinXP drive and boot from the Vista drive.
>
> -
> Drive Details:
>
> From the Windows Disk Management utility, drives read as follows:
> Disk 0 Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
> Disk 1 Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Primary Partition)
> Disk 2 Healthy (Primary Partition)
>
> -
> Disk 0 is the original boot disk with with WinXP system on it
> Disk 1 is the Vista system
> Disk 2 is my raid setup for storing WinMedia stuff
>
> Question: Is there a way, without a full reinstall of Vista, to remove
> Disk
> 0 and make the Disk 1 a reckognized bootable drive for Vista (aka the
> system
> drive)? If so, any recommendations would be appreciated.
>
> - Rich


My System SpecsSystem Spec
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