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qaz:
boot manager broke earlier, i used win 7 disk to do a startup repair and now i have C drive. Can u say if i can put the os onto this c drive please

qaz:
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Boggin:
No, you can't.

That is the system recovery partition and it shouldn't have a drive letter, besides, it's only 100MB.

You should remove the drive letter from there but I still don't think you will be able to change G to C

I'm just wondering if Startup Repair assigned that partition as C

You can use an install disk to boot up with and from the command prompt in there, you can use the bootrec commands to repair/rebuild the boot manager but I don't think it will assign it back to C.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/20864-mbr-restore-windows-7-master-boot-record.html

You may have to give those bcdedit commands a go or reinstall.

qaz:
yes it must have startup repair that assigned the c label , i didnt

ur right it still wont let me change it, i had thought that maybe i could just expand c: , stick the system backup on it that i have, and set it as active. ...i know thats a bit simplistic ha ha

the installation disc would not allow me to follow MS's own instructions to repair startup,[although im starting to wonder if it was just me]  but by removing the disc at one point i got there. It took 2 goes to fix it. Am not keen to use it again as u suggest but will take a look

if i formatted and reinstalled windows do u think the AOMEI system backup [or a mirror image] could be put onto the partition to replace the new installation, thus giving me a c drive again and my old os intact

am glad to have windows back again, maybe its time to re install the os

will look at the link u gave me
thanks

Boggin:
I'm not sure if a repair install will do it because that just repairs the OS in situ as far as I know, so it could remain as G

You may need to wipe and do a clean install.

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