Changing which partition to boot from.

Ease · 28 Apr 2009 at 14:01

Fed up with the speed of the hard drive Windows 7 sits on currently, I copied the entire partition (using a partition manager) onto a faster hard drive, but now it won't boot from it. When I view the hard drives on the Windows 7 disk manager it states that my current drive is "Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Logical Drive" whilst the new one is only "Logical Drive" - how can I change this?

I currently have XP installed on another drive, so when my computer turns on I do have the choice between XP and Windows 7, the problem is that it always boots from the original Windows 7. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

~Ease~

J.B · 28 Apr 2009 at 19:22

Which ever is the primary drive in the system you need to edit the boot.ini file.

Reza86 · 29 Apr 2009 at 09:59

Under win vista it can be altered from MSCONFIG, should be the same in XP.

Start ---- Run ---- MSCONFIG ---- Open the boot tab ---- Click on the OS you want to boot from at startup and click default.

bledd · 29 Apr 2009 at 10:05

J.B said:
Which ever is the primary drive in the system you need to edit the boot.ini file.

boot.ini is 2000/XP/2003 only

Ease · 29 Apr 2009 at 10:16

I didn't manage it in the end, I had to do a fresh install of Windows 7. Not surprising, but I thought I would try a shortcut first =P

J.B · 29 Apr 2009 at 19:40

bledd. said:
boot.ini is 2000/XP/2003 only

The way I read it the primary drive is running XP, but your right I need to get out the habbit of saying boot.ini