Sailorcancer
Active Member
Ok from Win 7 in disk management right click on that active partition, select "Change Drive Letters and Paths" and try to assign it a letter.
Ok made it my H drive.
So shove all three of those files in it?
Ok from Win 7 in disk management right click on that active partition, select "Change Drive Letters and Paths" and try to assign it a letter.
Ok made it my H drive.
So shove all three of those files in it?
Worked!
Fast last Question if you two aren't tired of me.
Is there a way to make the partition that has 7 on it be the active one instead of my new H drive?
Also
THANKS A LOT FOR the help!
I have never done duel booting like this before and you two were a great help! Thank you for teaching me and helping me expand my knowledge on computers!
Like I said before each drive has its own active partition....
So don't worry about it!
And glad you got it working...
yea... why fix whats already been fixed? Don't wanna break something else in the proccess... thats the worst
Good night and good luck with beta testing. And make sure you feedback to your hearts content to MS. I've made a good 5-6 reports tonight on stuff from previous versions that should still be there, so let em know what you think if you want to see it in the final release...
His win 7 partition should already be active since that is the only partition on that hard drive. With the newer OSes they don't always make it apparent. And if it isn't and he changes it, he'll need to startup repair from the disc to get Win 7 booting again.
Ok so far here is what is flagged:
Disk 0 (Windows 7)
- Boot
- Page File
- Crash Dump
- Primary Partition
NOW here's something else:
200 MB partition:
- System
-Active
- Primary Partition
4.58GB partition:
- Primary Partition
These two are both in Disk 0 <<<<<<<<
Disk 1 (Windows XP)
- Active
- Primary Partition
Ok, but you also haft to remember that because that is the active partition for win 7's drive and he is booting from that drive as the primary boot device, making win 7 the active partition will still make it so he can't boot Win 7 without startup repair. That is the partition that it looks for Win 7 boot files as well, so no bootmgr even if he changed it....
Don't mess with the "active" flag.
It's there for one purpose. It tells the MBR IPL program where to go to find the boot files.
If you point it to a different partition, the boot will fail.