Boot Drive

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AndyR

This may seem a stupid and obvious question but here goes.

I have a Dell machine with two HDD drives running Vista Ultimate. When
I installed the machine, drive C: was installed with the o/s (i.e
C:\WINDOWS) but it appears that the boot drive is the D: drive.

Don't have a problem with that, however, drive D: has developed a fault
and I now need to replace it. Before I change the drive, I need to
transfer the boot information to the C: drive. Is there a way of doing
this. In the old days of MSDOS I could use the SYS command. How do I
transfer the boot information to the C: drive?

Many Thanks
 
AndyR said:
This may seem a stupid and obvious question but here goes.

I have a Dell machine with two HDD drives running Vista Ultimate. When
I installed the machine, drive C: was installed with the o/s (i.e
C:\WINDOWS) but it appears that the boot drive is the D: drive.

Don't have a problem with that, however, drive D: has developed a fault
and I now need to replace it. Before I change the drive, I need to
transfer the boot information to the C: drive. Is there a way of doing
this. In the old days of MSDOS I could use the SYS command. How do I
transfer the boot information to the C: drive?
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You can start by copying the D:\boot directory to C: (if there is no
\boot directory on D: then it's not really the boot drive after all.)

The second step is to install the Vista MBR on the C: drive. If you
don't have a Vista install DVD, you can get what you need by installing
VistaBootPro (vistabootpro.org) which includes the bootsect.exe utility.

Open a command prompt window (Run as Administrator) and type
'bootsect /help' to see the instructions. Then install the new
MBR on C: and change your BIOS to boot from the C: drive to see
if it works. That should do what you need.
 
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