change vista boot partition

[yestech]

I have Vista installed twice on one hard drive, obviously on separate
partitions.

I want to delete one of the partitions with Vista on it, but this
particular partition is set as primary and has the boot files on it.

If I delete this partition and restart the computer and boot into the
Vista setup disk and do a Startup Repair will this install new boot
files on the remaining Vista partition allowing me to boot
successfully?

Thanks for any help!

Cheers,
Marty

 

[Jon]

I have Vista installed twice on one hard drive, obviously on separate
partitions.

I want to delete one of the partitions with Vista on it, but this
particular partition is set as primary and has the boot files on it.

If I delete this partition and restart the computer and boot into the
Vista setup disk and do a Startup Repair will this install new boot
files on the remaining Vista partition allowing me to boot
successfully?

Thanks for any help!

Cheers,
Marty

You would need to set the remaining Vista partition as 'active' and then try
booting into it. You can do this in Disk Management by right-clicking the
partition ( or using 'diskpart' from the command line). Startup repair
should repair things sufficiently enable you to boot up into it so long as
there are no other major problems. Personally I would that try that
*before* deleting anything. That way if there were any major issues, there
would still remain the potential to switch active partition again (eg using
'diskpart' in Startup repair or some other tool), and recover the situation.