Moving Win 7 to another drive

[Mark]

Currently I'm dual booting Vista and 7. Vista is on drive C and 7 is on
drive D. I have an Acronis image of 7. What I'd like to do is format D and
install the Acronis image on C overwriting Vista. From what I've read,
because I installed 7 after Vista, Vista holds the boot instructions. Is
there a way I can do this without having to do a fresh install of 7?

 

[Gordon]

"Mark" <balrog@castaway.net> wrote in message
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> Currently I'm dual booting Vista and 7. Vista is on drive C and 7 is on
> drive D. I have an Acronis image of 7. What I'd like to do is format D
> and install the Acronis image on C overwriting Vista. From what I've
> read, because I installed 7 after Vista, Vista holds the boot
> instructions. Is there a way I can do this without having to do a fresh
> install of 7?
>
>
>

You could boot from the 7 DVD and do a startup repair...

 

[Mark]

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Mark" <balrog@castaway.net> wrote in message
> newstKdnbuvhY2BMvDWnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>> Currently I'm dual booting Vista and 7. Vista is on drive C and 7 is on
>> drive D. I have an Acronis image of 7. What I'd like to do is format D
>> and install the Acronis image on C overwriting Vista. From what I've
>> read, because I installed 7 after Vista, Vista holds the boot
>> instructions. Is there a way I can do this without having to do a fresh
>> install of 7?
>>
>>
>>
>
> You could boot from the 7 DVD and do a startup repair...

....and that would take care of the boot problem? Could I also use the
startup/repair disk?

 

[Conor]

In article <CtmdnRyKvaKGLPDWnZ2dnUVZ_vydnZ2d@giganews.com>, Mark says...
>
> "Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:hkkb5k$nfd$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> >
> > "Mark" <balrog@castaway.net> wrote in message
> > newstKdnbuvhY2BMvDWnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> >> Currently I'm dual booting Vista and 7. Vista is on drive C and 7 is on
> >> drive D. I have an Acronis image of 7. What I'd like to do is format D
> >> and install the Acronis image on C overwriting Vista. From what I've
> >> read, because I installed 7 after Vista, Vista holds the boot
> >> instructions. Is there a way I can do this without having to do a fresh
> >> install of 7?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You could boot from the 7 DVD and do a startup repair...
>
> ...and that would take care of the boot problem? Could I also use the
> startup/repair disk?

The only other problem would be that you end up with the entire disk as
drive letter D: or nothing working if its assigned C: because all
registry entries would be referring to D:

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Conor

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