what a idiot !

Schizo · 19 Apr 2011 at 07:33

i was making a partition on my pc yesterday and for some stupid reason i made the partition the primary and now my pc ont boot as it is asking for the boot manager from c drive but ive made e drive the main drive !

what do i have to do to get it back to the c drive to boot into the pc ?

cant believe i done this stupid mistake :mad:

Philtor · 19 Apr 2011 at 08:06

Partition Magic should enable you to sort this.

Schizo · 19 Apr 2011 at 08:16

sorry to be a bit dumb,but how does this program help with getting my pc to read from the c drive instaed of the e drive ?

paradigm · 19 Apr 2011 at 08:24

Use your Windows installation media, and use the recovery console. Run diskpart and Mark C as "active" and "bootable". Unmark E from everything.

Schizo · 19 Apr 2011 at 08:26

thats what i thought i had to do,boot from my vista disk and go from there ?

is that what your saying paradigm ?

mast3r · 19 Apr 2011 at 09:07

Download Hirens boot CD,
Hirens.org

Boot from the CD into MINI XP and run the partition build tools, change the boot order or edit the MBR.

hellarda · 19 Apr 2011 at 09:10

just boot it with your vista disk, and then select startup repair, or run diskpart etc etc

Schizo · 19 Apr 2011 at 11:03

all sorted now thanks guys.

i was getting a bit worried then as i have some files i need from the c drive and didn't want to format just yet