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Answer» I tried to up GRADE my Vista to Windows but as the diagnostic on Win 7 seemed to believe I had programmes that would not run on Win7 and they were programmes I could not UN install or delete, I decided to install Win 7 on another hard drive on my MACHINE. I now need to delete the Vista installation on the original hard drive...HOW? I have tried disconnecting the Vista hard drive but the machine fails to boot up even though it can see the Win 7 hard drive. It would seem that I need to make the Win 7 a bootable hard drive and stop the Vista had drive being bootable. If Vista was installed first and you delete the partition 7 will no longer boot and you'll have to re-install it...Sad but True! Really Sad But thanks for the adviceState more clearly your goals of how you want this machine set up and we can advise further...Thank you for this information. I had this problem and thank you for the information. I have a Dell XPS720H2o that came with Vista 32 and a added Windows7 Ultimate 64 to another SATA Disk when It came out. I like WIndows7 so much more that I took the Vista 32 Disk out of the computer and replaced it with a new formated disk and I got a "shock" The system did not boot up into WIndows7 as expected.... instead iI got the following error HTLDR is missing I thought there must be something I did not know about the Dell BIOS to set the WIndows7 as the default OS but it is the default as per the Windows7 OS and Easy BCD. I guess I am just screwed!!!! as I have to devote one internal SATA port to "History" Here is my question.... can I replace the 32 bit Vista with a 64 bit Vista of course a a new install? so that I can at least use it with the 8gb of ram Thank you again for SHARING your knowledge of this David Quote from: WDLees on November 26, 2009, 09:09:58 PM Thank you for this information. I had this problem and thank you for the information. I have a Dell XPS720H2o that came with Vista 32 and a added Windows7 Ultimate 64 to another SATA Disk when It came out. I like WIndows7 so much more that I took the Vista 32 Disk out of the computer and replaced it with a new formated disk and I got a "shock" David, First of all welcome to the forum. Secondly you need to start your own thread so that you can get individualized help.And third, you need to post the CORRECT error - it is NOT HTLDR that is missing but NTLDR.Sorry for not stating the correct error... Yes the error was NTLDR Is there any work around to this requirement that if Vista was installed first... that Vista must be present for Windows7 to Boot. It would seem that a lot of others set up a dual boot of Vista and Windows7 and now may want to delete Vista. Beside a new install of Windows7 it would seem that there must be a way to fix this. Is it in the BIOS or in how Windows7 was installed as a dual boot.... it is hard to grasp the WHY Quote from: mroilfield on November 27, 2009, 06:04:56 AM David, |
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