Hopefully a simple solution is just waiting for me... Have searched everywhere but cannot quite find the answer. Thought the following was a good idea but now not so sure.
Have Vista x64 Ultimate installed. Decided to install 7 as clean. Wanted to hedge so got a 2nd identical disk. Vista disk labeled as C: as normal, second labeled as Z: in Vista disk manager. Installed Win7 x64 Ultimate to second disk so it picked up Z: as the install drive. That's fine, not wedded to C:. Installed programs etc, xferred data, now happy to ditch Vista and repurpose 'first' drive as backup. Both disks are SATA.
W7 disk manager shows D0: (C
as System, Active, Primary and D1: (Z
as Boot, Page File, Active, Primary BUT the bootloader files are on the C: drive. How do I make D1 (Z
the System volume so that D0: can be reformatted and I will just boot from D1? Happy to leave D1 called Z: rather than C: Not interested particularly in dual boot configuration so happy for Vista to be gone. Is it as simple as running bootsect.exe /nt60 ALL /force and deleting the Vista entry then swapping the hard disk boot order in the BIOS?
Want to be sure before I do that having spent ages reinstalling and patching s/w on my clean W7....
Thanks, and apologies if this is already answered but my searches revealed only partial answers.
Have Vista x64 Ultimate installed. Decided to install 7 as clean. Wanted to hedge so got a 2nd identical disk. Vista disk labeled as C: as normal, second labeled as Z: in Vista disk manager. Installed Win7 x64 Ultimate to second disk so it picked up Z: as the install drive. That's fine, not wedded to C:. Installed programs etc, xferred data, now happy to ditch Vista and repurpose 'first' drive as backup. Both disks are SATA.
W7 disk manager shows D0: (C
Want to be sure before I do that having spent ages reinstalling and patching s/w on my clean W7....
Thanks, and apologies if this is already answered but my searches revealed only partial answers.