My computer is running Vista SP2 32 bit and has 4 hard drives. One of the drives has XP installed on it and it was there when I installed Vista so there is a working dual-boot. The Vista Boot Manager is stored on the drive which has XP - I guess because that drive was 1st boot priority (it is IDE while all the others are SATA if it matters). C: in Vista has no Boot folder. The Boot folder is on D: in Vista which is the drive with XP.
Now I want to remove the drive that has XP but I am worried this will cause Vista to not boot. Below is the detailed view from EasyBCD. My instinct is to Reinstall the Vista Bootloader - Write MBR on the Manage Bootloader screen before removing the XP drive. Can anyone tell me if this is the right thing to do.
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=D:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {4d812482-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
resumeobject {4d812483-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
displayorder {466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}
{4d812482-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 1
resume No
Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}
device partition=D:
path \ntldr
description Windows XP
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {4d812482-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
bootdebug No
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {4d812483-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
nx OptIn
pae ForceDisable
vga No
quietboot No
sos No
debug No
Now I want to remove the drive that has XP but I am worried this will cause Vista to not boot. Below is the detailed view from EasyBCD. My instinct is to Reinstall the Vista Bootloader - Write MBR on the Manage Bootloader screen before removing the XP drive. Can anyone tell me if this is the right thing to do.
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {9dea862c-5cdd-4e70-acc1-f32b344d4795}
device partition=D:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {7ea2e1ac-2e61-4728-aaa3-896d9d0a9f0e}
default {4d812482-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
resumeobject {4d812483-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
displayorder {466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}
{4d812482-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
toolsdisplayorder {b2721d73-1db4-4c62-bf78-c548a880142d}
timeout 1
resume No
Windows Legacy OS Loader
------------------------
identifier {466f5a88-0af2-4f76-9038-095b170dc21c}
device partition=D:
path \ntldr
description Windows XP
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {4d812482-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
inherit {6efb52bf-1766-41db-a6b3-0ee5eff72bd7}
bootdebug No
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {4d812483-ae90-11dc-88e1-fd905018fe72}
nx OptIn
pae ForceDisable
vga No
quietboot No
sos No
debug No