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As my windows 7 installation is on an SSD (C:\), windows made drive D:\ (which is just an ordinary data disk) a system disk.
C:\ is only 111gb, D is huge. I want to backup only C:\, but as windows thinks D:\ is a system disk, it won't allow me to backup only C:\, it also wants to backup D:\ (and I don't have the space for that).
C:\ is marked Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition
D:\ is marked System, Active, Primary Partition.
I used EasyBCD to make sure everything is on C:\:
Default: Windows 7
Timeout: 30 seconds
EasyBCD Boot Device: C:\
Entry #1
Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
But if I use diskpart to mark D:\ as inactive, the pc won't boot into windows anymore (it will BSOD). Then I have to recover using the win7 dvd before I can get into windows again.
bootrec /fixmbr didn't do anything either.
Any idea how to mark C:\ as system instead of D:\ so that I can use windows backup?
Thanks!
C:\ is only 111gb, D is huge. I want to backup only C:\, but as windows thinks D:\ is a system disk, it won't allow me to backup only C:\, it also wants to backup D:\ (and I don't have the space for that).
C:\ is marked Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition
D:\ is marked System, Active, Primary Partition.
I used EasyBCD to make sure everything is on C:\:
Default: Windows 7
Timeout: 30 seconds
EasyBCD Boot Device: C:\
Entry #1
Name: Windows 7
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
But if I use diskpart to mark D:\ as inactive, the pc won't boot into windows anymore (it will BSOD). Then I have to recover using the win7 dvd before I can get into windows again.
bootrec /fixmbr didn't do anything either.
Any idea how to mark C:\ as system instead of D:\ so that I can use windows backup?
Thanks!
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