How to convert slave hard drive to primary hard drive

[eddie189]

current HD going bad, have second HD installed and using as back but now i need to make the second HD my primary, can i do this without having to reformat in order to add booting files? help

 

[ukcal]

current HD going bad, have second HD installed and using as back but now i need to make the second HD my primary, can i do this without having to reformat in order to add booting files? help

Two things, first of all have you installed to the second HDD or cloned the original HDD to the new one?
Secondly, are your hard-drives IDE or SATA?

 

[aford10]

The easiest way to do it would be to back up your files and do a fresh install on the backup drive.

You could use something like partition magic to make a partition, and then install windows on that partiton.