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November 18th 09, 01:31 PM
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I have 3 hard drives with XP on "C" and Vista on "E". "D" just contains the overspill from "C". I want to get rid of XP as I am not using it anymore but have found that "C" contains the MBR. Does anybody know how to transfer the MBR and have the system booting from Vista. Cheers Paul 
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November 18th 09, 03:30 PM
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"Paul Lower" wrote in message
... Hi I have 3 hard drives with XP on "C" and Vista on "E". "D" just contains the overspill from "C". I want to get rid of XP as I am not using it anymore but have found that "C" contains the MBR. Does anybody know how to transfer the MBR and have the system booting from Vista. Cheers Paul Each hard drive generally has its own MBR. You can set which hard drive to boot from via the bios boot order eg switching it to the Vista disk. Unless of course you meant different partitions on one hard drive, which would be a different kettle of fish altogether .... -- Jon
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November 18th 09, 05:49 PM
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In your BIOS, set the physical disk which has the E partition (Vista
will see it as C) as the primary boot hard disk. Then see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392, boot from the Vista DVD and at the command prompt run Bootrec /FixMBR and Bootrec /FixBoot. These commands will write a boot record to the disk holding E and make it bootable. You may need to disconnect the current C disk, or delete the partition on it, before running the commands to ensure the boot record is written to the disk you want. On 18/11/2009 14:31, Paul Lower wrote: Hi I have 3 hard drives with XP on "C" and Vista on "E". "D" just contains the overspill from "C". I want to get rid of XP as I am not using it anymore but have found that "C" contains the MBR. Does anybody know how to transfer the MBR and have the system booting from Vista. Cheers Paul
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November 18th 09, 08:11 PM
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Hi
Thankyou for your reply. I will try that. Cheers Paul "Dominic Payer" wrote in message ... In your BIOS, set the physical disk which has the E partition (Vista will see it as C) as the primary boot hard disk. Then see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392, boot from the Vista DVD and at the command prompt run Bootrec /FixMBR and Bootrec /FixBoot. These commands will write a boot record to the disk holding E and make it bootable. You may need to disconnect the current C disk, or delete the partition on it, before running the commands to ensure the boot record is written to the disk you want. On 18/11/2009 14:31, Paul Lower wrote: Hi I have 3 hard drives with XP on "C" and Vista on "E". "D" just contains the overspill from "C". I want to get rid of XP as I am not using it anymore but have found that "C" contains the MBR. Does anybody know how to transfer the MBR and have the system booting from Vista. Cheers Paul
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