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Booting from non-system drive

Posted: 02-02-2007, 02:01 PM
I had to do a clean install because my original upgrade install revealed
that my boot drive was bad (after the install succeeded and I ran Vista). I
bought a new hard drive, replaced my boot drive, and did the install.
Everything went find except for one little thing...

I now have a problem that seems to stem from the fact that I didn't change
the BIOS settings to specify the new drive as my boot drive before
installing, so that one of my other drives inherited that status. My
situation is now, according to Computer Management:
C-drive = Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
D-drive = Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Also, the Boot Manager is still active. I guess this is what allows me to
boot from the D-drive in spite of it's not being the System drive.

Does anyone know a way in which I can correct this (move the Boot, Page
File, Crash Dump properties to my C-drive and get rid of the Boot Manager)
without re-installing Vista again, this time with the BIOS settings
corrected?

Thanks in advance,
John
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