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    help!dual booting and deleting original OS partition

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by willymcd, Nov 20, 2009.

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    willymcd Notebook Consultant

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    so I made a new partition for W7 on my Z and I got everything working perfect, I moved all my files over from the vista partition to the W7 partition, and was done with Vista, so I thought why not delete it, the partition that is. whoops, when I restarted and after bios, I get the message no OS found? what happened here? All I can think of is that maybe the partition W7 was called G drive in vista but in W7 it was called C: drive, and there has to be a c drive to boot. anyways I am lost, anything I can do with out having to start over, I don't see anything in Bios to help me.
     
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    I was able to instal windows 7 RC, only DVD of windows I have. and I can now start up and run windows 7 rc, without dvd. but now I don't have the option to boot my freshly installed W7. The partition it is on is still there and all the file and everything is there. Is there anyway I can make that partition my main partition? or anyway to make it so I can boot up the other W7 instalation?
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    willymcd, Nov 21, 2009
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