Help please

[Mr. Lime]

I have a 1TB drive and a i think 250GB drive

Previously i had vista ultimate on the 1tb and win7 on the 250gb

I wanted to image the win7 partition delete the vista partition and then put the win7 partition on the bigger drive.

for this i downloaded Acronis True image,

and it had an option to wipe partitions, so i thought what they hey, lets wipe the vista partition properly

so i go to that, and then i find that it will take 2 hours, so i think hmmmmm cba, i notice theres a cancel button, so i think "ah if theres a button to cancel it it cant do any harm"

i press cancel and it restarts

then it says disk boot failure please insert system disk and press enter,

i think "oh s***"

whack in the ubuntu disk, verify all the files are still there on the other drive, the win 7 partition,

the vista partition is gone

i install a fresh copy of win 7 into the 1tb drive

the files are all there for access on the previous win 7 partition,

but it wont load it as the OS

I want to know why when everything seems intact

ill say this, the drive letter used to be "B" and had changed to "D" if that affects anything

[Snakedoc]

Yes it will. If you have a dual boot option, you can view it. Type msconfig into start and click on it. Click on boot and you will see the drive it is trying to boot to. If not, try setting the Vista drive as first boot in BIOS and see if that allows it to.

[Mr. Lime]

No i no longer have a vista drive

i have win 7 (working but fresh install) on the 1tb

and i have win 7 (not working but with all programs installed) on the 250gb

i want to know why the existing one wont work, i changed it back from D to B

[Snakedoc]

So, do you have a dual boot menu at all? Or is the boot sector held on each drive?

[Pullen]

karma for not paying for it :P

[Snakedoc]

karma for not paying for it :P

What do you mean exactly by this?:cop:

Fingers crossed we may have sussed this over MSN.

[iGoD ReLeNtLeS]

I would suggest installed ubuntu on a small 10GB partition as this will put the GRUB boot loader on the system, thus allowing you to select what OS to boot every-time you turn the machine on Or just install GRUB by its-self. Can be found here (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/).

[Snakedoc]

We installed a 3rd party boot loader and he is currently in his old install.

[Mr. Lime]

Indeed :)

much props to snakey

[DoubleTop]

to move forward with this, my advice is to disconnect the 250Gb, then reinstall win7 onto your 1tb, after a full partition table wipe.

This mean no boot menu, a single boot onto the big drive, the simply add the 250Gb back in and get your files and stuff across to the new primary install.

DT.

[Mr. Lime]

to move forward with this, my advice is to disconnect the 250Gb, then reinstall win7 onto your 1tb, after a full partition table wipe.

This mean no boot menu, a single boot onto the big drive, the simply add the 250Gb back in and get your files and stuff across to the new primary install.

DT.

problem has since been sorted

only im left with a system reserved partition of 100mb that is severely annoying annoying lol

cant delete it

but its linked to an install of windows that doesnt exist anymore lol

any one know how to hide partitions? :L

[wonderlust]

just go to disk management and then change drive letter, there is then an option to remobve drive letter.

[sneeker]

That 100mb partitions always there with win7 iirc.

[Lorem-Ipsum]

I generally remove partitions by using gparted. Its a linux live cd with a partition manager.

However i you can't remove it when in windows maybe you shouldn't?

I don't know much about windows as I haven't properly used it since xp but in linux we have something called "swap" which is a partition dedicated for swap space which is effectively used as extra ram. When I used windows I seem to remember this being called a page file. Not sure if that has anything to do with it though.

[NickCPC]

That 100MB partition is used for Windows activation and a few other critical things. If you are *positive* that it is from an old install, and your current install is not using it, as llawwehttam says just use GParted with a Ubuntu Live CD to remove it.

You should be able to remove it in Disk Management at wonderlust says, but Ubuntu will effectively ignore any permissions or restrictions assigned to that partition so you should be able just to delete it in GParted.

[Mr. Lime]

It installed with a version of win 7 i have now wiped in my attempts to move a partition from one drive to another :L

Odd thing is

i have managed to delete it

(format then delete)

but i cant add the space onto any drive

i thought maybe its too small an amount to add

so i took like 1GB out of the partition, and it viewed its as different unallocated space

as in i had

100mb unallocated then 931GB windows partition then 1gb unallocated in computer management