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| | 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 |
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| | 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 |
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