anykey
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Hello, I have been using a dual boot setup of XP on a new fast drive and win7 on an old slow drive.
I am now ready to cease using XP and I want to do a clean install win7 on the new drive and remove the old drive.
My data is quite separate on a third drive.
I have been using Easy BCD to manage my boot.
I have today installed win7 on the new drive.
I ran setup.exe from within the existing win7.
The reason for that is my installation CD would not run from bootup, but insisted on booting into the easybcd boot manager screen.
Win7 is happily working on the new drive. Hooray
I now want to remove the old drive but I cannot. Boo
Somehow the boot manager insists on having the old drive present coz it wants to use it to boot.
Even though it eventually takes me to my new win7 installation. I hope I am explaining this clearly.
I suppose I have to get boot files from the root of the old drive and replace them on the new drive.
OR, am I to edit some boot file on the new drive to tell it to forget about the old drive and just use files on my new drive.
I am confused.
I wonder if you can help me please.
Thanks,
I am now ready to cease using XP and I want to do a clean install win7 on the new drive and remove the old drive.
My data is quite separate on a third drive.
I have been using Easy BCD to manage my boot.
I have today installed win7 on the new drive.
I ran setup.exe from within the existing win7.
The reason for that is my installation CD would not run from bootup, but insisted on booting into the easybcd boot manager screen.
Win7 is happily working on the new drive. Hooray
I now want to remove the old drive but I cannot. Boo
Somehow the boot manager insists on having the old drive present coz it wants to use it to boot.
Even though it eventually takes me to my new win7 installation. I hope I am explaining this clearly.
I suppose I have to get boot files from the root of the old drive and replace them on the new drive.
OR, am I to edit some boot file on the new drive to tell it to forget about the old drive and just use files on my new drive.
I am confused.
I wonder if you can help me please.
Thanks,