move bootmgr from drive c to drive d

[Lars Schouw]

I would like to move the boot manager from drive c to drive d.
How can I do that using Bcdedit?

I would like to remove drive c from my PC but the boot information is
on that drive.. telling it to boot the vista installed my d drive.

My current setup looks like this :
D:\Windows\system32>Bcdedit

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {5dd72779-60f6-11dc-9b5d-b530b079b669}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=D:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Microsoft Windows Vista
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=D:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {5dd72779-60f6-11dc-9b5d-b530b079b669}
nx OptIn

Regards,
Lars

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Make D: active with disk manager, then shut down and remove C:. Boot the
system with the Vista DVD and run a startup repair.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Lars Schouw]

Rick,

When I try that I get an error: NTLDR is missing.

Thank you for your kind advice.

Lars

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Vista doesn't use ntldr. You get the error because the system is trying to
boot the drive and cannot find the bootloader referred to by the mbr
(perhaps D: at one time contained a prior NT system?) This is why you need
to boot from the Vista DVD and run a startup repair.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

Rick,

When I try that I get an error: NTLDR is missing.

Thank you for your kind advice.

Lars

 

[Lars Schouw]

I tried the startup repair already as you surgested when I got this
error. I think I had Windows XP on it before.
Cheers,
Lars

 

[Lars Schouw]

I got it working now.. turned out I had an extra small partition on my
d derive.. I deleted it and ran startup repair and it works great now!

Lars