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Moving Boot to Different Partation

Postby Deathsaint » Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:15 pm

I had Windows 7 installed on Partition D:\, then had trouble so had to install another new fresh installation on another partition C:\ , so after that happened i couldn't removed the old windows files and the system page stayed on Partition D in the Computer Management/Storage along with the boot,Please help me how to move it so i can format that Partition.Thanks
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Re: Moving Boot to Different Partation

Postby yeshuas » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:08 pm

First, sorry it took so long to get to you.


You can try this to get rid of the files etc that you mention

Open an administrator command prompt by typing cmd into the start menu search box, and hit the Ctrl+Shift+Enter key combination.

To take ownership of the file, you’ll need to use the takeown command. Here’s an example:

"takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winload.exe.mui"

That will give you ownership of the file, but you still have no rights to delete it. Now you can run the cacls command to give yourself full control rights to the file:

cacls C:\Windows\System32\en-US\winload.exe.mui /G yeshuas:F

Note that my username is yeshuas, so you will substitute your username there.

At this point, you should be able to delete the file. If you still can’t do so, you may need to reboot into Safe Mode and try it again. For the filename in the example, I was able to overwrite it without safe mode.
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Re: Moving Boot to Different Partation

Postby Deathsaint » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:19 pm

But if i deleted my windows wont boot right? since its the boot file is on different partition and i cant format it?,what i meant is it possible to move the boot to the original location of the windows files?

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Re: Moving Boot to Different Partation

Postby yeshuas » Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:24 pm

DBP can do what you want; after installing DBP from the System Bootloader Tab, you would choose Windows Vista or Windows 7 bootloader, then install to Specific Drive
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Re: Moving Boot to Different Partation

Postby Deathsaint » Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:10 pm

Thanks Alot i will try that hoping nothing goes wrong :)
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