s Specifies an optional volume letter parameter to designate l Specifies an optional locale parameter to use when Source Specifies the location of the windows system root. System partition and to create a new system BCD store. The bcdboot.exe command-line tool is used to copy critical boot files to the C:\windows\system32>bcdboot /?īcdboot - Bcd boot file creation and repair tool. Turns out there is a new (profoundly advanced, you have been warned) command line tool called BCDBoot. This was a scary prospect for me, because from my point of view, while this was a fairly advanced operation, I just wanted to switch where the boot info comes from. Wipe and Start Over.Īpproach 2: Copy the Hidden/System Boot Manager and Boot Folder over to the C: drive and run a tool called BCDEdit to move things around in 12 short steps. Basically it boiled down to:Īpproach 1: Nuclear Option. I searched around and found all sorts of hard and scary descriptions of how to fix this. I couldn't format D: because it was what I booted off of. Disk 1 - C: Drive with C:\windows and other booty.However, I'd installed Windows to the other drive and got myself into this situation: I checked my BIOs, and it turned out, in fact, that I had told it to boot of that drive. Yikes! See how my D: drive is Disk 0 and is marked as System, but my C: drive is Disk 1 and marked as Boot? That means that the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) is on my D: drive. I opened up Disk Management and it showed me this. I did this by changing the boot order in the BIOs.įast forward a bit, and today I wanted to format my DATA drive - my D: drive - and the format applet said "not so fast." This will likely be the death of me at some point.Īnyway, my system is a little non-standard and I had at some point a year ago switched hard drives around to make the faster one be my boot drive. I have a tendency to just Next>Next>Next>Finish my way through most wizards. I went through the process, but wasn't really paying attention. I paved (reformatted and started over) my main machine, formerly named QUADPOWER, now QUADPOWER7 to use the new Windows 7 RC a few days ago. Run away in fear as this is all completely useless information. Listening to me may well kill your pet kitten and render both your computer and you personally unbootable. This is a blog, not a technical article or official anything. Disclaimer: It's very likely that I have NO idea what I'm talking about.
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