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Changing boot partition in Windows 7

  • 17-11-2011 2:28pm
    #1
    hare05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭


    I'm trying to change the boot partition in Win7.

    My boot partition is originally C: (40GB), but at the end of the drive and near full. The rest of the drive was file storage but not full.

    I created another partition (J:) (70GB) at the start of the drive and copied C: with Easeus partition master. I then used "bcdboot" to move the boot files across.

    I restarted and it still boots in C:.

    I'm not overly familiar with the boot process and most of what I've done has just been Google-fu.

    Tell me where I went wrong?


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  • #2
    hare05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭hare05


    Lucky me, bcdboot only shows errors in verbose mode

    C:\Users\Patrick>bcdboot c/windows /v /s J:
    BFSVC: Failed to validate boot manager checksum (c/windows\boot\PCAT\bootmgr)!
    Error code = 0xc1
    Failure when attempting to copy boot files.

    I'm booted into J now it seems, but I can't change drive letters for either of the drives.


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