Comments on: Moving “System, Active” to another Hard drive http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/moving-system-active-to-another-hard-drive/ Dave Dugdale's Personal Blog Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:28:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Dugdale http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/moving-system-active-to-another-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-1272 Dave Dugdale Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:31:31 +0000 http://www.davecolorado.com/?p=895#comment-1272 Great suggestion, I will give that a try and report back! Great suggestion, I will give that a try and report back!

]]> By: eddie http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/moving-system-active-to-another-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 eddie Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:36:20 +0000 http://www.davecolorado.com/?p=895#comment-1270 Whoops. I didn't even read all of your above post. So w/ vista disconnected it won't boot. I say try 'rescuing' the windows 7 installation. Whoops. I didn’t even read all of your above post. So w/ vista disconnected it won’t boot. I say try ‘rescuing’ the windows 7 installation.

]]> By: eddie http://www.davecolorado.com/index.php/moving-system-active-to-another-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-1269 eddie Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:35:24 +0000 http://www.davecolorado.com/?p=895#comment-1269 If you do remove the Vista hard drive (temporarily disconnect SATA cable), what happens? I'm guessing that you tried this and it didn't boot. With the computer in that state (Windows 7 installed, but not booting), maybe try using the Windows 7 install media to do some sort of 'reinstall' or 'rescue' that will create a MBR? on the Windows 7 drive. If you do remove the Vista hard drive (temporarily disconnect SATA cable), what happens?

I’m guessing that you tried this and it didn’t boot.

With the computer in that state (Windows 7 installed, but not booting), maybe try using the Windows 7 install media to do some sort of ‘reinstall’ or ‘rescue’ that will create a MBR? on the Windows 7 drive.

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