I've reached a new level of idiocy.
I had windows 7 on one hdd and XP on another. (two physical hard drives)
I installed ubuntu overwriting the XP hdd. (This drive had the Win 7 boot loader) Mistake. Then I overwrote ubuntu with windows 7 to hopefully have access to the boot loader so i could run recovery from within windows 7.
Now I have Windows 7 installed on both hard drives.
The one that i was working on originally (D , and has all my data, does not have the boot loader on it.
Disk management looks like this
Disk 0 (C
596.16 GB NTFS
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Disk 1 (D
596.17 GB NTFS
Healthy (system , active, primary partition)
How do I get windows to load from D: instead of C:?
XP had a boot.ini file which made this a lot easier.
I can't find something similar in 7.
Would it work if I backed up all contents of D:, reinstalled win 7, and then dump the files back onto D: ?
I had windows 7 on one hdd and XP on another. (two physical hard drives)
I installed ubuntu overwriting the XP hdd. (This drive had the Win 7 boot loader) Mistake. Then I overwrote ubuntu with windows 7 to hopefully have access to the boot loader so i could run recovery from within windows 7.
Now I have Windows 7 installed on both hard drives.
The one that i was working on originally (D , and has all my data, does not have the boot loader on it.
Disk management looks like this
Disk 0 (C
596.16 GB NTFS
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
Disk 1 (D
596.17 GB NTFS
Healthy (system , active, primary partition)
How do I get windows to load from D: instead of C:?
XP had a boot.ini file which made this a lot easier.
I can't find something similar in 7.
Would it work if I backed up all contents of D:, reinstalled win 7, and then dump the files back onto D: ?