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Last response: November 23, 2009 3:45 PM in Systems

jagzc

November 18, 2009 6:19:26 PM

HI Guys,

I have one hard-drive in which I installed my operating system
c: vista 32

now on the same HDD I have partitioned off another which I installed another operating system on.
z: Vista 64

If I delete my first operating system will my second operating system themn become my master operating system? with no problems?

thanks

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masterasia

Homebuilt system Expert

November 18, 2009 9:14:26 PM

You may need to fix the MBR (master boot record). In the MBR it still wants to boot from the first partition. You'll need to create a new one so that it sees the your second partition as the first one.

http://www.lancelhoff.com/how-to-fix-vista-mbr-repair-b...

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dndhatcher

Homebuilt system Authority

November 18, 2009 11:08:28 PM

In your disk manager there should be a way to mark a partition as active. The active partition is what it should try to boot from.

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jagzc

November 19, 2009 9:56:26 AM

so if i make that the active boot then delete my first OS install i should be ok:? or shall i just start from scratch ? delete everything and do a fresh install ?

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thuan

November 19, 2009 1:06:44 PM

You should delete the first partition, move Vista 64 partition to the start of the disc (OS partition should be near the start of the HD as much as possible), a free solution like QPart can do this. Then you can use the Windows repair feature with the installation DVD.